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

Just use parse instead of format :

String dateFromDB = "";
SimpleDateFormat parser = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
Date yourDate = parser.parse(dateFromDB);

And then you can can read any field you want using java.util.Date & Calendar API :

  Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    calendar.setTime(yourDate);
    calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH); //Day of the month :)
    calendar.get(Calendar.SECOND); //number of seconds
//and so on

I hope it fits your needs