How to get the day, year, hours, min Individually from date format “yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ”?

Question

I am doing a programme that stores the present time and date in \"yyyy-MM-dd\'T\'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ\" this format. and I am storing it in database as a string. when

Answer 1

I'm suggesting that you store times in the DB as "timeInMillis". In my experience it simplifies code and it allows you to compare times values to eachother.

To store a time:

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(); // current time
long timeInMillis = calendar.getTimeInMillis();
mDb.saveTime (timeInMillis); // adjust this to work with your DB

To retrieve a time:

long timeInMillis = mDb.getTime();
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTimeInMillis (timeInMillis);
int milliSeconds = calendar.get(MILLISECOND);
//etc