Help with dates in Android
- by SamRowley
Hi guys,
Looking for a bit of help with taking a dat from a DatePicker Widget and storing it in an sqlite database within the app. I have the following code:
java.util.Date utilDate = null;
String y = Integer.toString(date.getDayOfMonth()) + "/" + (date.getMonth()+1) + "/" + Integer.toString(date.getYear());
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyy");
utilDate = formatter.parse(y);
java.sql.Date z = new java.sql.Date(utilDate.getDate());
x = z.toString();
Log.v("The date: ", x);
}
Where date is the DatePicker widget. If I output the utilDate variable (i.e. the Java version of date) using logCat it seems to work fine and gives me a format like: Tue Jan 04 00:00:00 GMT 2011 which I am expecting but using the code above to get the sql version of the date, it always gives me the date 1970-01-01. I'm pretty sure the solution is very simple but I just can't see it.
