I often find cases of date & time in several Android projects, both academy projects and corporate projects. In the past, when I first solved this case, I often asked about this on stackoverflow and there were many discussions that were identical to,
"How to set the date & time format correctly according to the configuration of the mobile device used, arranged into year, month, day, hour and minute?"
The solution is to use the standard Java DateFormat class.
One example of implementing DateFormat is shown in the code below.
Date date = new Date(location.getTime());
DateFormat dateFormat = android.text.format.DateFormat.getDateFormat(getApplicationContext());
mTimeText.setText("Time: " + dateFormat.format(date));You can initialize a Date object with your own values, but you should be aware that the constructor is deprecated and you should really be using the Java Calendar object.
You can use DateFormat. The result depends on the phone's default Locale, but you can also specify the Locale, by following the Documentation instructions , you can apply some examples of the following formats:
Example 1
DateFormat.getDateInstance().format(date)FR Locale : 3 Nov. 2017
US/En Locale : Jan 12, 1952
Example 2
DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT).format(date)FR Local : 11/03/2017
US/En Locale : 12.13.52
Example 3
DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM).format(date)FR Locale : 3 Nov. 2017
US/En Locale : Jan 12, 1952
Example 4
DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG).format(date)FR Locale : November 3, 2017
US/En Locale : January 12, 1952
Example 5
DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.FULL).format(date)FR Locale : vendredi 3 novembre 2017
US/En Locale : Tuesday, April 12, 1952
Example 6
DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance().format(date)DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance().format(date)
Example 7
DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.SHORT).format(date)FR Locale : 11/03/2017 16:04
Example 8
DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.MEDIUM).format(date)FR Locale : 11/03/2017 16:04:58
Example 9
DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.LONG).format(date)FR Locale : 11/03/2017 16:04:58 GMT+01:00
Example 10
DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.FULL).format(date)FR Locale : 11/03/2017 16:04:58 heure normale d'Europe centrale
Example 11
DateFormat.getTimeInstance().format(date)FR Locale : 16:04:58
Example 12
DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT).format(date)FR Local : 16:04
Example 13
DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM).format(date)Example 14
DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.LONG).format(date)FR Locale : 16:04:58 GMT+01:00
Example 15
DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.FULL).format(date)FR Locale : 16:04:58 heure normale d'Europe centrale