Reformat Twitter date

TweetViewUtil.kt

/**
 * Reformat Twitter date to a new pattern
 */
fun TweetView.reformatDate(newDatePattern: String) {
    val twitterDatePattern = "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy" // Mon Apr 21 04:08:37 +0000 2018
    val dateTextView = findViewById<AppCompatTextView>(R.id.tw__tweet_timestamp)
    dateTextView.text = parseDate(tweet.createdAt, twitterDatePattern).format(newDatePattern)
}

/**
 * Parse date according to a Pattern
 */
@SuppressLint("SimpleDateFormat")
fun parseDate(stringDate: String, pattern: String): Date = SimpleDateFormat(pattern).parse(stringDate)

/**
 * Format Date according to Pattern (SimpleDateFormat)
 */
@SuppressLint("SimpleDateFormat")
fun Date.format(pattern: String) : String = SimpleDateFormat(pattern).format(this)

TwitterViewComponent.kt

val tweet = result!!.data
val tweetView = TweetView(componentInstance.context, tweet,  R.style.CustomTwitterStyle)
tweetView.reformatDate("HH:mm:ss")