Android: Date (year,month,day)

Question

I want to get the date as a year, month ,day without hours or minutes or any thing else, and I don't want to get the year alone and the month and the day each by its self. Because as a full date I need it to comparison with another date such as today `28.11.2012` and to compare it to `11.12.2011` as if today minus `11.12.2011` more than 280 day I want to execute some code

Accepted Answer

you can use `SimpleDateFormat`.

The basics for getting the current date

```
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, yyyy");
String now = df.format(new Date());
```

or

```
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy");
String now = df.format(new Date());
```

EDITED : First of All you have the date in String Formate. you have to Convert into date Formate. try below code to do that. you have apply same for both the String strThatDay & strTodaDay you will get Calender Object for both.

```
String strThatDay = "2012/11/27";
  SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
  Date d = null;
  try {
   d = formatter.parse(strThatDay);//catch exception
  } catch (ParseException e) {
   // TODO Auto-generated catch block
   e.printStackTrace();
  }

Calendar thatDay = Calendar.getInstance();
  thatDay.setTime(d);
```

after that try below code to get Day from two Date :

```
long diff = today.getTimeInMillis() - thatDay.getTimeInMillis(); //result in millis

long days = diff / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
```

try it out. Hope it will help you.

Android: Date (year,month,day)

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