String date into Epoch time

Question

I am little bit confused in dates. I am currently working on the weather app and everything works fine .. I just wanna handle this type of format into my own desirable forma

Answer 1

You can use SimpleDate formatter to parse you date as string into epoch

        String input = "2017-09-10T18:35:00+05:00";
        SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");
        try {
            Date date = sf.parse(input);
            long dateInEpochFormatInMilliSeconds = date.getTime();
            //if you want this in seconds then
            long dateInEpochFormatInSeconds = date.getTime()/1000L;
            //if you want to show only date month and year then
             SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
             String date = sdf.format(dateInEpochFormatInMilliSeconds);
             //This date String will contain the date in dd-MM-yyyy format
        } catch (ParseException| ArithmeticException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }