How would I get the current day of the week?
Can some please help me?
Use a Calendar and get the DAY_OF_WEEK field:
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
int dayOfWeek = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
Or if you want the day name instead, you can use SimpleDateFormat:
Date today = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE", Locale.ENGLISH); // override the default Locale
String dayNameInWeek = df.format(today);
To get a text display of the day of the week you can use:
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE");
System.out.println("Today is " + dateFormat.format(new Date()));
output:
Today is Sunday
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I have this string
String s = "29/04/2015"
And I want it to produce the name of that day in my language, which is Norwegian.
For example:
29/04/2015 is "Onsdag"
30/04/2015 is "Torsdag"
How can I do this?
String dateString = "29/04/2015";
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Date date = dateFormat.parse(dateString);
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("E", Locale.no_NO);
String day = formatter.format(date);
Now day will have the day in given locale. Update
You need to configure an instance of DateFormat, with your locale, (take a look at https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Locale.html).
then parse the Date and get the day, as Dilip already suggests.
You can use date parsing combined with Locale settings to get the desired output. For e.g. refer following code.
String dateStr = "29/04/2015";
SimpleDateFormat dtf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date dt = dtf.parse(dateStr);
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(dt);
String m = cal.getDisplayName(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, Calendar.LONG_FORMAT, new Locale("no", "NO"));
System.out.println(m);
For more information about locale, visit Oracle Java Documentation.
First you will need to parse the String to a Date. Then use a Calendar to get the day of the week. You can use an array to convert it to the appropriate string.
// Array of Days
final String[] DAYS = {
"søndag", "mandag", "tirsdag", "onsdag", "torsdag", "fredag", "lørdag"
};
// Parse the date
final String source = "27/04/2015";
final DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date date = new Date();
try {
date = format.parse(source);
} catch (final ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
// Convert to calendar
final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.setTime(date);
final int dayOfWeek = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
// Get the day's name
System.out.println("Day of Week: " + dayOfWeek);
System.out.println("Day = " + DAYS[dayOfWeek - 1]);
You need to parse your text with date to Date instance and then format it back to text. You can do it with SimpleDateFormat class which supports many patterns of dates like
dd/MM/yyyy for your original date,
and EEEE for full name of day in month.
While formatting you will also need to specify locale you want to use. To create Norway specific locale you can use for instance
Locale nor = Locale.forLanguageTag("no-NO");
So your code can look more or less like:
String text = "29/04/2015";
Locale nor = Locale.forLanguageTag("no-NO");
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy", nor);
SimpleDateFormat dayOfWeek = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE", nor);
Date date = sdf.parse(text);
System.out.println(dayOfWeek.format(date));
Output: onsdag.
final int SUNDAY = 1;
final int ONSDAG = 2;
final int TORSDAG = 3;
....
....
String s = "29/04/2015";
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Date date = dateFormat.parse(s);
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(date);
int day = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
String dayString;
switch (day) {
case(ONSDAG):
dayString = "ONSDAG";
break;
....
}
EDIT: I just tested this and it actually starts from Sunday, and returns the value of 1 for sunday, I've changed the constant values to reflect this.
First you'll need a Calendar object.
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
String s = "29/04/2015"
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
cal.setTime(format.parse(s));
From the Calendar you can get the day of the week.
int dayOfWeek = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
dayOfWeek will be 1-7 with Sunday (in english) being 1
You can use an HashMap map where the first parametri is the date "29/4/2015" while the second is the meaning. You can use your string to get the meaning map.get (yourString).
When I convert the String "07/02/2014" (mm/dd/yyy) to a java.util.Date using SimpleDateFormatter I get a result of Sun Dec 29 00:00:00 CAT 2013.
Here is the code I am running:
DateFormat formatter;
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/DD/YYYY");
Date exactDate = formatter.parse("07/02/2014");
Why is this happening ?
It must be:
DateFormat formatter;
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Date exactDate = formatter.parse("07/02/2014");
The documentation explains why.
y Year
Y Week year
D Day in year
d Day in month
M Month in year
m Minute in hour
Try this one,
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Date exactDate = formatter.parse("07/02/2014");
When you print the Date object you will get that output. Try formatting Date into String for desired format and output.
Try following code:
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Date exactDate = formatter.parse("07/02/2014");
String date=new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").format(exactDate);
Hope this helps.
I have to parse "17-Jun" format date using Java.But the problem is when I try to parse "dd-MM" format using SimpleDateFormat it is returning as "Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 IST 1970".Is it possible to get current(2014) year instead of 1970.
My result:
17/JUNE/1970
Expected result:
17/JUNE/2014
Have a look at this..
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.set(Calendar.DATE, 17);
c.set(Calendar.MONTH, 5);
c.set(Calendar.YEAR, c.get(Calendar.YEAR));
Date date=new Date(c.getTimeInMillis());
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateformatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/mmm/yyyy");
String convertedDate = simpleDateformatter .format(date);
To get year you can just use
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.get(Calendar.YEAR) will fetch you current year
Hope it helped... :)
Try this
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.set(Calendar.DATE, 17);
c.set(Calendar.MONTH, 5);
c.set(Calendar.YEAR, c.get(Calendar.YEAR));
Date d=new Date(c.getTimeInMillis());
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd- mmm");
String conDate = formatter.format(d);
Do like this
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy").parse("17-Jun-"+ Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR));
You'll have to write a utility method, there isn't anything in SimpleDateFormat that will interpret a non-existant year as the current year. Something like this:
public static Date parseDate(String dateString) throws ParseException {
//determine current year
Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance();
int currentYear = today.get(Calendar.YEAR);
//parse input
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM");
Date parsed = format.parse(dateString);
// set current year on parsed value
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(parsed);
cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, currentYear);
return cal.getTime();
}
Try this:
SimpleDateFormat dfDate = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
java.util.Date d = null;
try {
d = dfDate.parse("17-Jun-"+ Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR));
} catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println(""+d );
your problem will be solved.
java.time
In Java 8 you can do something like:
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d-MMM");
MonthDay md = MonthDay.parse("17-Jun", dtf);
LocalDate d = LocalDate.now().with(md);
System.out.println(d.getDayOfMonth());
System.out.println(d.getMonthValue());
System.out.println(d.getYear());
I guess the simplest way is to do this:
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MMM/dd");
Date date = new Date();
System.out.println("Time is: " + dateFormat.format(date) );
This gives you exactly what you want. also see
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/format/simpleDateFormat.html
Little late, but if you really don't want to use Calendar at all - as I gather from your comments to the correct answers above - (not recommended with the usage of deprecated methods, but still):
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM");
Date date = format.parse("17-JUN");
date.setYear(new Date().getYear());
System.out.println(date);
Output:
Tue Jun 17 00:00:00 IST 2014
All answers given here are more or less correct, but I notice that one detail aspect is still overlooked, namely if the combination of day and months fits to current year (february 29 problem). So I would suggest a strict parsing like following:
String ddMMM = "17-Jun";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
sdf.setLenient(false); // in order to check for "29-Feb"
TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault(); // or change to your specific time zone
Date date =
sdf.parse(ddMMM + "-" + new GregorianCalendar(tz).get(Calendar.YEAR));
Try,
String s2 = "Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 1970";
SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("E MMM dd hh:mm:ss yyyy");
SimpleDateFormat sdf2 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MMM/yyyy");
try {
Date d1 = sdf1.parse(s2);
System.out.println(d1);
String s3 = sdf2.format(d1);
System.out.println("Before Changing :: "+s3);
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(d1);
cal.add(Calendar.YEAR, 2014-1970);
d1 = cal.getTime();
String s4 = sdf2.format(d1);
System.out.println("After Changing :: "+s4);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Output
Before Changing :: 17/Jun/1970
After Changing :: 17/Jun/2014
I went to display the current date and the six (6) last dates
example :
02/11/2012
01/11/2012
31/10/2012
30/10/2012
29/10/2012
28/10/2012
to get the current day in JAVA I used :
Date date = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
System.out.println("current day : "+sdf.format(date));
but how do I decrement the days ?
You can use the Calendar#add method to substract a day, like:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
Date date=cal.getTime();
System.out.println(sdf.format(date)); //remove line to display only the last 5 days
for (int i=0;i<5;i++){
cal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,-1);
date=cal.getTime();
System.out.println(sdf.format(date));
}
Like Jon Skeet (soon Mr. 500k :) ) suggested, I too find the Joda Time API more cleaner and appropriate, even for such simple tasks:
DateTime dt = new DateTime();
for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
System.out.println(dt.toString("yyyy/MM/dd"));
dt = dt.minusDays(1);
}
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
System.out.println("current day : "+sdf.format(c.getTime()));
// decrement 1 day
c.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, -1);
// getTime() returns a java.util.Date
System.out.println("the day before : "+sdf.format(c.getTime()));
// getTimeInMillis() returns a long, which can be used to construct a java.sql.Date
System.out.println("the day before : "+sdf.format(new java.sql.Date(c.getTimeInMillis()));
And so on...
SimpleDateFormat "W" default set SUNDAY is first day of week,ex:
SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("W");
format.f(new Date());
i want to set "W" first day is MONDAY,i try:
SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("W");
Calendar c=Calendar.getInstance();
c.setTimeInMillis(input);
c.setFirstDayOfWeek(Calendar.MONDAY);
format.format(c.getTime())
but no effect.
use setCalendar() on your SimpleDateFormat to set the calendar used for date calculations:
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("W");
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setFirstDayOfWeek( Calendar.MONDAY );
format.setCalendar( calendar );
format.format( whateverDateYouWantToFormat );`