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i have 1 date string in form of:

"sun sep 18 00:05:35 gmt+07:00 2016"

i getting format media store date taken. how convert date object in java/android?

the date in string can parsed existing date object using simpledateformat class. creating simpledateformat object , specifying date pattern in constructor able parse date stored in string.

for particular case code this:

simpledateformat format = new simpledateformat("eee mmm d hh:mm:ss z yyyy");  date date = null; try {     date = format.parse(dateasstring); } catch (parseexception e) {     e.printstacktrace(); } 

as can seen pattern:

eee - day of week in 3 letters (e.g. sun, mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat)

mmm - month of year (between 0 , 11)

dd - day of month

hh - hour (between 00 , 23)

mm - minutes (between 00 , 59)

ss - seconds (between 00 , 59)

z - timezone (in case, general time zone - gmt)

yyyy - year

in addition, if further want pass date object calendar object need set time zone there too.

calendar calendar = calendar.getinstance(timezone.gettimezone("gmt+07:00")); calendar.settime(date); 

however, if have timezone changing can extract timezone part string:

string timezone = dateasstring.substring(19, 28); calendar calendar = calendar.getinstance(timezone.gettimezone(timezone)); calendar.settime(date); 

just careful starting , ending indexes of substring() function