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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Working with JSON Formatting a Date

Posted by Roshan Kashif
Roshan Kashif
2,976 Points

date and time

It is giving me a error saying" Bummer! Make sure you use the method to format a date from the SimpleDateFormat variable."

Movie.java 
import java.util.Date;

public class Movie { 

    private String mTitle;
    private Date mReleaseDate;

    public String getTitle() {
        return mTitle;
    }

    public void setTitle(String title) {
        mTitle = title;
    }

    public Date getReleaseDate() {
        return mReleaseDate;
    }
    public String getFormattedReleaseDate() {
     SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    Date mReleaseDate= new Date();

    return "";
  }


    public void setReleaseDate(Date date) {
        mReleaseDate = date;
    }
}

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi Roshan,

You've got as far as creating the formatter. You now need to use it to manipulate the content of mReleaseDate. You've redeclared it - that's not required.

You need to use your formatter, and one of its methods, to generate a string for your method to return. 

  public String getFormattedReleaseDate(){
    SimpleDateFormat simpleDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    return simpleDate.format(mReleaseDate);
  }

So, the third line is where you're at - this take the formatter, uses its format method and passes in the existing date variable. This is then returned from the function as a string.

I hope that makes sense!

Steve.

Roshan Kashif
Roshan Kashif
2,976 Points

Thanks a lot that worked.