How to get current time and date in Android
You could use:
import java.util.Calendar
Date currentTime = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
There are plenty of constants in Calendar for everything you need.
Check the Calendar class documentation.
You can (but no longer should - see below!) use android.text.format.Time:
Time now = new Time();
now.setToNow();
From the reference linked above:
The Time class is a faster replacement for the java.util.Calendar and java.util.GregorianCalendar classes. An instance of the Time class represents a moment in time, specified with second precision.
NOTE 1: It's been several years since I wrote this answer, and it is about an old, Android-specific and now deprecated class. Google now says that "[t]his class has a number of issues and it is recommended that GregorianCalendar is used instead".
NOTE 2: Even though the Time
class has a toMillis(ignoreDaylightSavings)
method, this is merely a convenience to pass to methods that expect time in milliseconds. The time value is only precise to one second; the milliseconds portion is always 000
. If in a loop you do
Time time = new Time(); time.setToNow();
Log.d("TIME TEST", Long.toString(time.toMillis(false)));
... do something that takes more than one millisecond, but less than one second ...
The resulting sequence will repeat the same value, such as 1410543204000
, until the next second has started, at which time 1410543205000
will begin to repeat.