Time.Parse(String) Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Android.Text.Format

Assembly:: Mono.Android.dll

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Parses a date-time string in either the RFC 2445 format or an abbreviated format that does not include the "time" field.

[Android.Runtime.Register("parse", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Z", "GetParse_Ljava_lang_String_Handler")]
public virtual bool Parse (string? s);

[<Android.Runtime.Register("parse", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Z", "GetParse_Ljava_lang_String_Handler")>]
abstract member Parse : string -> bool
override this.Parse : string -> bool

Parameters

s: String

the string to parse

Returns

Boolean

true if the resulting time value is in UTC time

Attributes: RegisterAttribute

Exceptions

TimeFormatException

if s cannot be parsed.

Remarks

Parses a date-time string in either the RFC 2445 format or an abbreviated format that does not include the "time" field. For example, all of the following strings are valid:

Returns whether or not the time is in UTC (ends with Z). If the string ends with "Z" then the timezone is set to UTC. If the date-time string included only a date and no time field, then the allDay field of this Time class is set to true and the hour, minute, and second fields are set to zero; otherwise (a time field was included in the date-time string) allDay is set to false. The fields weekDay, yearDay, and gmtoff are always set to zero, and the field isDst is set to -1 (unknown). To set those fields, call #normalize(boolean) after parsing.

To parse a date-time string and convert it to UTC milliseconds, do something like this:

Time time = new Time();
              String date = "20081013T160000Z";
              time.parse(date);
              long millis = time.normalize(false);

Java documentation for android.text.format.Time.parse(java.lang.String).

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Applies to