How To Convert Date Time In Hex In Android

I need to convert date and time in hex code for writing it on IOT device. Here is my code private String getDateTimeToHexa() { Calendar mCalendar = Calendar.getInstance(); TimeZ

Solution 1:

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
public class Date {
    public static void main(final String[] args)
    {
    final Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.set(Calendar.DATE, 15);
    cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.DECEMBER);
    cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2005);
    cal.set(Calendar.HOUR, 17);
    cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 35);
    cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 20);
    final Date date = cal.getTime();

    System.out.printf("Date %s is encoded as: %s\n", date, Long.toHexString(date.getTime()));
    // decode with: new Date(Long.parseLong("1082f469308", 16))
}

}

Solution 2:

Try this:

 private String getDateTimeToHexa() {
        Calendar mCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        TimeZone gmtTime =  TimeZone.getTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault().getDisplayName());
        mCalendar.setTimeZone(gmtTime);
        final Date date = mCalendar.getTime();
        return Long.toHexString(date.getTime()/1000);
    }

Solution 3:

Instead of returning

return Long.toHexString(date.getTime());

Return following

return Long.toHexString(date.getTime()/1000);

As correctly pointed out by @shmosel that date.getTime() return time in a millisecond and if you want 8 digit Hex format then it needs to be converted in the second format.

The return type of Date can be found here