Removing time from a Date object?

Question

I want to remove time from Date object.

DateFormat df; String date; df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); d = eventList.get(0).getStartDate(); // I'm getting the date using this method date = df.format(d); // Converting date in "dd/MM/yyyy" format 

But when I'm converting this date (which is in String format) it is appending time also.

I don't want time at all. What I want is simply "21/03/2012".

Answer 1

You can remove the time part from java.util.Date by setting the hour, minute, second and millisecond values to zero.

import java.util.Calendar; import java.util.Date;  public class DateUtil {      public static Date removeTime(Date date) {         Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();         cal.setTime(date);         cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);         cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);         cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);         cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);         return cal.getTime();     }  }