How to get full date with correct format?

Question

I am trying to get the date.

I am using this for the date and month

int date = cld.get(Calendar.DATE);
int month = cld.get(Calendar.MONTH);

Instead of it returning as a int i want it to be a string. or maybe the full date format.

Such as: 12/12/12 or...

August 14 2011

How would i go about doing this?

Answer 1

You will want to learn about SimpleDateFormat.

The basics for getting the current time in ISO8601 format:

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mmZ");
String now = df.format(new Date());

For other formats:

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, yyyy");
String now = df.format(new Date());

or

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy");
String now = df.format(new Date());