mysql - BasicNameValuePair (String, java.lang.String) in BasicNameValuePair cannot be applied -

i using code store 2 strings(newcategory & reportdate) in database:

string newcategory = spinnerfood.getselecteditem().tostring();              // create instance of simpledateformat used formatting             // string representation of date (month/day/year)             dateformat df = new simpledateformat("mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss");             // date today using calendar object.             date today = calendar.getinstance().gettime();             // using dateformat format method can create string             // representation of date defined format.             string reportdate = df.format(today);              // preparing post params             list<namevaluepair> params = new arraylist<namevaluepair>();             params.add(new basicnamevaluepair("name", newcategory));             params.add(new basicnamevaluepair("dtime", reportdate));              servicehandler serviceclient = new servicehandler();              string json = serviceclient.makeservicecall(url_new_category,                     servicehandler.post, params); 

this stores name string successfully. date , time data in database contains value:

0000-00-00 00:00:00

if change date string date/time format so:

df.format(today);          params.add(new basicnamevaluepair("dtime", today)); 

i error:

basicnamevaluepair (string, java.lang.string) in basicnamevaluepair cannot applied

to (string, java.util.date)

could inform me how store date , time value database?

you can add date , time params formatted string

 params.add(new basicnamevaluepair("dtime", reportdate)); 

your code handles db calls use mysql function str_to_date(...) format string datetime required.