get year, month, day and time form "Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:40:07 GMT" in Java/Android

Question

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I want year, month, date, date and time from date format

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:40:07 GMT

I am getting this date format form HttpResponse header and need year, month, date, date from this date format.

Following code I am using but not getting real value:

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");
Date date;
try {
date = dateFormat.parse(header.getValue());// here we are getting date in format "Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:40:07 GMT"
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(date);

System.out.println("YEAR: " + calendar.YEAR);
System.out.println("MONTH: " + calendar.MONTH);
System.out.println("DATE: " + calendar.DATE);

} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

I tried this also:

1.

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));

2.

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));

But all the above code give following result:

YEAR: 1
MONTH: 2
DATE: 5

Answer 1

You are using calendar.YEAR, calendar.MONTH, and calendar.DATE the Calendar class contains static YEAR, MONTH and DATE variables so it print value of these variable i.e 1,2 and 5. Instead of it use this:

System.out.println("YEAR: " + calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR));
System.out.println("MONTH: " + calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH));
System.out.println("DATE: " + calendar.get(Calendar.DATE));