Java Utililty Methods Date to String

List of utility methods to do Date to String

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The list of methods to do Date to String are organized into topic(s).

Method

StringdateToDefaultDateString(Date date)
date To Default Date String 
return new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").format(date);
StringdateToFMDate(Date date)
date To FM Date 
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date);
int year = cal.get(Calendar.YEAR) - 1700;
int month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;
int day = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
int hour = cal.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
int minute = cal.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
int second = cal.get(Calendar.SECOND);
...
StringdateToFormattedString(Date toFormat)
Converts a Date-Object to a String with the format of the DATEPATTERN 
return new SimpleDateFormat(DATEPATTERN).format(toFormat);
StringdateToHHmmStr(Date date)
date To H Hmm Str 
return dateToString(date, HH_MM_PATTERN);
StringdateToHMTime(Date date)
date To HM Time 
if (date != null) {
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");
    return formatter.format(date);
} else {
    return "";
StringdateToHttpDateString(Date d)
date To Http Date String 
DateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz", Locale.US);
f.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
return f.format(d);
StringdateToHuman(Date date)
Convert a date to a humanly readable date. 
if (date == null) {
    return "missing";
return m_date.get().format(date);
LongDateToInteger(Date date)
Date To Integer 
SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
String t = date.toString();
Long dateLong = null;
try {
    Date d = f.parse(t);
    dateLong = d.getTime() / 1000;
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
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StringdateToIso(Date d)
date To Iso 
return ISO_DATE_FORMAT.format(d);
StringdateToIso8601String(Date date)
Converts a Date into an ISO-8601 formatted datetime string. 
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ", Locale.ENGLISH);
return df.format(date);