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Subtract number of days without impacting the time

I have the following piece of code. I’m trying to get the epoch value t for exactly 10 days ago, at the current time. But when I convert t back to a date/time using https://www.epochconverter.com/, the printed result’s time is not correct. What am I missing? Answer I suggest you use OffsetDateTime…

Ethiopian calendar in Android

I am developing an Android app for an Ethiopian company and have to deal with dates. The calendar used in Ethiopia is similar to the Gregorian one but has two main differences: it’s set approx. 7 years earlier and has 13 months. At the time I post this question the date is 13-09-2021 in the Gregorian ca…

Unable to find Dateformat

I know this is a very silly question but I’m unable to find a suitable dateformatter for the given Date: 2020/04/01T20:00-05:00 or 2020/03/05T21:45-07:00. Any sort of help would be highly appreciated. Answer You can’t find one because that is a non-standard format. – is industry standard, us…

How to get perfect UTC Time in java/android?

I am trying to get UTC time in my application but unfortunately every time I am getting my current emulator Date and Time Instead of UTC. Tried, Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone(“UTC”)); ZonedDateTime utcTime = ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC); DateTime now = DateTime.now(…

Random time and date

I want to get a date that generates the time from now to 2685 days back and a random time. The format I accept must be “uuuu-MM-dd’T’HH: mm: ssZ”. Currently my program is generating a random date but I am not able to create a random time because Duration conflicts with Period Answer So…