Java Date Time Format Example

Java SimpleDateFormat – Java Date Format

Java Date Time Format Example

We discussed about various aspects of DateFormat and SimpleDateFormat. Let us now look at some examples for different formats of date and time.

Pattern	Result
MM/dd/yyyy	01/02/2018
dd-M-yyyy hh:mm:ss	02-1-2018 06:07:59
dd MMMM yyyy	02 January 2018
dd MMMM yyyy zzzz	02 January 2018 India Standard Time
E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z	Tue, 02 Jan 2018 18:07:59 IST

String pattern = "dd-MMM-yy";
String dateInString =new SimpleDateFormat(pattern).format(new Date());
Log.d(TAG, "onClick: " +dateInString);

onClick: 03-Mar-22

Letter for Pattern	Date or Time component	Examples
G	Era designator	AD
y	Year	2018(yyyy),18(yy)
M	Month in year	July(MMMM), Jul(MMM), 07(MM)
w	Results in week in year	16
W	Results in week in month	3
D	Gives the day count in the year	266
d	Day of the month	09(dd), 9(d)
F	Day of the week in month	4
E	Day name in the week	Tuesday, Tue
u	Day number of week where 1 represents Monday, 2 represents Tuesday and so on	2
a	AM or PM marker	AM
H	Hour in the day (0-23)	12
k	Hour in the day (1-24)	23
K	Hour in am/pm for 12 hour format (0-11)	0
h	Hour in am/pm for 12 hour format (1-12)	12
m	Minute in the hour	59
s	Second in the minute	35
S	Millisecond in the minute	978
z	Timezone	Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00
Z	Timezone offset in hours (RFC pattern)	-0800
X	Timezone offset in ISO format	-08; -0800; -08:00