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VWS code snippet question

By pw96pw96pw96 on Thu, 02/13/2014 - 00:05

Dear Vuforia Engineers,

In the Java sample code I found the following code snippet, which confused me.

DateUtils.formatDate(new Date()).replaceFirst("[+]00:00$", "")

Why cannot I just use DateUtils.formatDate(new Date())?

What is the use of replaceFirst("[+]00:00$", "")?

Thank you for your time.

Best Regards,

Peng

That's simply to prepare the new Date() string so that it is formatted correctly for the expected date format - it is removing the leading 00:00 in the s