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         


        

Answer 1

A bit of a fudge but you could use java.sql.Date. This only stored the date part and zero based time (midnight)

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2011);
c.set(Calendar.MONTH, 11);
c.set(Calendar.DATE, 5);
java.sql.Date d = new java.sql.Date(c.getTimeInMillis());
System.out.println("date is  " + d);
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
System.out.println("formatted date is  " + df.format(d));

gives

date is  2011-12-05
formatted date is  05/12/2011

Or it might be worth creating your own date object which just contains dates and not times. This could wrap java.util.Date and ignore the time parts of it.