Android Utililty Methods Date Format String Create

DateFormat format = DFS.get(pattern);
if (format == null) {
    format = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
    DFS.put(pattern, format);
return format;

try {
    Method method = DateFormatSymbols.class.getMethod(
            "getInstance", new Class[] { Locale.class });
    return (DateFormatSymbols) method.invoke(null,
            new Object[] { locale });
} catch (Exception ex) {
    return new DateFormatSymbols(locale);

final Date date = getDateTimeFromString(gmtString, orgFormat);
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
return formatter.format(date);

Date date = stringToDate(src, f1);
return dateToString(date, f2);

String dateString = "";
long currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000;
int dateTime = (int) (currentTime - date) / 60;
if (date == 0) {
    return dateString;
if (dateTime > 4320) {
    dateString = getDateString(date);
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DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
        "EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss z yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
return dateFormat;

return new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");

if (sDateFormat == null) {
    sDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd", Locale.US);
return sDateFormat;

SimpleDateFormat mSimpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
Date date = null;
try {
    date = mSimpleDateFormat.parse(strDate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
return date;
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String mDateTime = null;
try {
    Calendar c = new GregorianCalendar();
    SimpleDateFormat mSimpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
            dateFormatYMDHMS);
    c.setTime(mSimpleDateFormat.parse(strDate));
    SimpleDateFormat mSimpleDateFormat2 = new SimpleDateFormat(
            format);
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