Getting the current date/time on an android device

Question

How can I get the current date/time of an android device? Whether it's correct or not, doesn't matter, it just need the date/time which which is happens to be set on the android device.

I've tried this:

new Time().setToNow()

but it hasn't given me the current date/time, instead it's set it.

Answer 1

Getting the current date time can be done in several ways.

Option 1

System.currentTimeMillis() will return current datetime in Milliseconds.

if your parse this into Date object

Date newDate  = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());

newDate.toString();  //This will print the Human Readable String

Option 2

SimpleDateFormat format= new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ",Locale.getDefault());

String myDate = format.format(new Date());

Format Example

                 yyyy-MM-dd 1969-12-31
                 yyyy-MM-dd 1970-01-01
           yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm 1969-12-31 16:00
           yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm 1970-01-01 00:00
          yyyy-MM-dd HH:mmZ 1969-12-31 16:00-0800
          yyyy-MM-dd HH:mmZ 1970-01-01 00:00+0000
   yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSSZ 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000-0800
   yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSSZ 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000+0000
 yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ 1969-12-31T16:00:00.000-0800
 yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000+0000

Read more about SimpleDateFormat

Answer 2

You can Use this function to get Current Date and Time:

Date date = new Date();