DateTimeFormatter

Kotlin |Java

public final class DateTimeFormatter

DateTimeFormatter is a class for international-aware date/time formatting.

It is designed to encourage best i18n practices, and work correctly on old / new Android versions, without having to test the API level everywhere.

Summary

Public constructors
`DateTimeFormatter( @NonNull DateTimeFormatterJdkStyleOptions options, @NonNull Locale locale )`
`DateTimeFormatter( @NonNull Context context, @NonNull DateTimeFormatterSkeletonOptions options, @NonNull Locale locale )`

Public methods
`final @NonNull String`	`format(@NonNull Calendar calendar)` Formats a Calendar object into a user friendly locale aware date/time string.
`final @NonNull String`	`format(@NonNull Date date)` Formats a Date object into a user friendly locale aware date/time string.
`final @NonNull String`	`format(long milliseconds)` Formats an epoch time into a user friendly, locale aware, date/time string.

public DateTimeFormatter(
    @NonNull DateTimeFormatterJdkStyleOptions options,
    @NonNull Locale locale
)

public DateTimeFormatter(
    @NonNull Context context,
    @NonNull DateTimeFormatterSkeletonOptions options,
    @NonNull Locale locale
)

public final @NonNull String format(@NonNull Calendar calendar)

Formats a Calendar object into a user friendly locale aware date/time string.

Parameters
`@NonNull Calendar calendar`	the date / time to format.

Returns
`@NonNull String`	the formatted date / time string.

public final @NonNull String format(@NonNull Date date)

Formats a Date object into a user friendly locale aware date/time string.

Parameters
`@NonNull Date date`	the date / time to format.

Returns
`@NonNull String`	the formatted date / time string.

public final @NonNull String format(long milliseconds)

Formats an epoch time into a user friendly, locale aware, date/time string.

Parameters
`long milliseconds`	the date / time to format expressed in milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.

Returns
`@NonNull String`	the formatted date / time string.