Date.ToGMTString Method

Definition

Caution

deprecated

Creates a string representation of this Date object of the form: <blockquote>

[Android.Runtime.Register("toGMTString", "()Ljava/lang/String;", "GetToGMTStringHandler")]
[System.Obsolete("deprecated")]
public virtual string? ToGMTString ();
[<Android.Runtime.Register("toGMTString", "()Ljava/lang/String;", "GetToGMTStringHandler")>]
[<System.Obsolete("deprecated")>]
abstract member ToGMTString : unit -> string
override this.ToGMTString : unit -> string

Returns

a string representation of this date, using the Internet GMT conventions.

Attributes

Remarks

Creates a string representation of this Date object of the form: <blockquote>

d mon yyyy hh:mm:ss GMT

</blockquote> where:<ul> <li>d is the day of the month (1 through 31), as one or two decimal digits. <li>mon is the month (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec). <li>yyyy is the year, as four decimal digits. <li>hh is the hour of the day (00 through 23), as two decimal digits. <li>mm is the minute within the hour (00 through 59), as two decimal digits. <li>ss is the second within the minute (00 through 61), as two decimal digits. <li>GMT is exactly the ASCII letters "GMT" to indicate Greenwich Mean Time. </ul>

The result does not depend on the local time zone.

This member is deprecated. As of JDK version 1.1, replaced by DateFormat.format(Date date), using a GMT TimeZone.

Java documentation for java.util.Date.toGMTString().

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Applies to