Android parsing String to Date time with SimpleDateFormat

Question

I have the String 11/08/2013 08:48:10

and i use SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss")

and when im parsing it throws an exception : unparseable date

what's wrong with it ?

            String result = han.ExecuteUrl("http://"+han.IP+":8015/api/Values/GetLastChange"); 
            Log.d("Dal","result date time "+result); #result is 11/08/2013 08:48:10
            SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");

            Date convertedDate = new Date();
            try
            {

                convertedDate = dateFormat.parse(result);
            }
            catch (ParseException e)
            {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

Answer 1

Its working try parse your date like this..

String dtStart = "11/08/2013 08:48:10";
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
try {
    date = format.parse(dtStart);
    System.out.println("Date ->" + date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 2

Working code is here.

You can use below code to convert from String to Date

String myStrDate = "11/08/2013 08:48:10";
    SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
    try {
        Date date = format.parse(myStrDate);
        System.out.println(date);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

For reverse, it means, to convert from Date to String

SimpleDateFormat myFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
    try {
        Date date = new Date();
        String datetime = myFormat.format(date);
        System.out.println("Current Date Time in give format: " + datetime);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

For more reference, regarding Date and Time formatting. Visit developer site

Answer 3

java.time and ThreeTenABP

It’s not the answer that you asked for, but it should be the answer that other readers want in 2020 and onward.

    DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM/dd/uuuu HH:mm:ss");
    String result = "11/08/2013 08:48:10"; 
    LocalDateTime dateTime = LocalDateTime.parse(result, formatter);
    System.out.println("Parsed date and time: " + dateTime);

Output from this snippet is:

Parsed date and time: 2013-11-08T08:48:10

The Date class that you used is poorly designed and long outdated, so don’t use that anymore. Instead I am using java.time, the modern Java date and time API. If you need a Date for a legacy API that you cannot afford to upgrade just now, the conversion is:

    Instant i = dateTime.atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant();
    Date oldfashionedDate = DateTimeUtils.toDate(i);

    System.out.println("Converted to old-fashioned Date: " + oldfashionedDate);

Converted to old-fashioned Date: Fri Nov 08 08:48:10 CET 2013

What went wrong in your code?

what's wrong with it ?

The only thing wrong with your code is you’re using the notoriously troublesome SimpleDateFOrmat and the poorly designed Date class. Which wasn’t wrong when you asked the question in 2013. java.time didn’t come out until 4 months later.

Your code is running fine. One may speculate that a leading space or the like in your string has prevented parsing. If this was the problem, try parsing result.trim() rather than just result since trim() returns a string with the leading and trailing whitespace removed.

Question: Doesn’t java.time require Android API level 26?

java.time works nicely on both older and newer Android devices. It just requires at least Java 6.

• In Java 8 and later and on newer Android devices (from API level 26) the modern API comes built-in. Only in this case the conversion to Date is a little simpler: Date.from(i).
• In non-Android Java 6 and 7 get the ThreeTen Backport, the backport of the modern classes (ThreeTen for JSR 310; see the links at the bottom).
• On (older) Android use the Android edition of ThreeTen Backport. It’s called ThreeTenABP. And make sure you import the date and time classes from org.threeten.bp with subpackages.

Links

• Oracle tutorial: Date Time explaining how to use java.time.
• Java Specification Request (JSR) 310, where java.time was first described.
• ThreeTen Backport project, the backport of java.time to Java 6 and 7 (ThreeTen for JSR-310).
• ThreeTenABP, Android edition of ThreeTen Backport
• Question: How to use ThreeTenABP in Android Project, with a very thorough explanation.