Here you can find the source of formatDate(Calendar cal)
public static String formatDate(Calendar cal)
//package com.java2s; /*//from ww w. j a v a2s .com Copyright 2005-2015, Olivier PETRUCCI. This file is part of Areca. Areca is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Areca is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Areca; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */ import java.util.Calendar; import java.util.GregorianCalendar; public class Main { private static int ZERO_YEAR = 2000; private static GregorianCalendar ZERO = new GregorianCalendar(ZERO_YEAR, 0, 1); private static int[] CUMUL_DAYS_PER_YEAR = { 0, 366, 731, 1096, 1461, 1827, 2192, 2557, 2922, 3288, 3653, 4018, 4383, 4749, 5114, 5479, 5844, 6210, 6575, 6940, 7305, 7671, 8036, 8401, 8766, 9132, 9497, 9862, 10227 }; public static String formatDate(Calendar cal) { StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(); sb.append(cal.get(cal.YEAR)).append("-").append(1 + cal.get(cal.MONTH)).append("-") .append(cal.get(cal.DAY_OF_MONTH)).append("|").append(translateToDayNumber(cal)); return sb.toString(); } public static String formatDate(int date) { return formatDate(translateToCalendar(date)); } /** * * @param y * @param m Month number, 1=Jan, 2=Feb, ..., 12=Dec * @param d * @return */ public static int translateToDayNumber(int y, int m, int d) { Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(y, m - 1, d); return translateToDayNumber(cal); } /** * Translate the calendar to a number of days since 01/01/2000 */ public static int translateToDayNumber(Calendar cal) { if (cal == null) { return 0; } else { int y = cal.get(cal.YEAR) - ZERO_YEAR; int nbD = CUMUL_DAYS_PER_YEAR[y]; nbD += cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR) - 1; return nbD; } } public static Calendar translateToCalendar(int day) { if (day == 0) { return null; } else { Calendar ret = (Calendar) ZERO.clone(); ret.add(ZERO.DAY_OF_MONTH, day); return ret; } } public static Calendar translateToCalendar(long millisec) { if (millisec == 0) { return null; } else { long nbDays = (long) (millisec / 86400000.0); Calendar ret = translateToCalendar((int) nbDays); long dayMillisec = millisec - nbDays * 86400000; ret.add(ZERO.MILLISECOND, (int) dayMillisec); return ret; } } }