Convert date into specific format

Question

I am working on Java. I have a date for example: 20120328.
Year is 2012, month is 03 & day is 28.
I want to convert it into yyyy-MM-dd format.
I have tried it but it is not working.
How to do it?

possible duplicate of [How do I parse a standard date into GMT?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1257542/how-do-i-parse-a-standard-date-into-gmt) — Andrew Thompson, Apr 04 '12 at 07:37

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 09 '15 at 09:27

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SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Date date = new Date();
String ourformat = formatter.format(date.getTime());

If you want other than "MM/dd/yyyy" then just change the format in SimpleDateFormat

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AlBlue

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answered Apr 04 '12 at 08:30

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 04 '12 at 07:38

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Find some examples here.

  DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy");
  Date date = (Date)formatter.parse("01/29/02");

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Andrew Thompson

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answered Apr 04 '12 at 07:38

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 04 '12 at 07:35

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Take a look here. You will need to use the SimpleDateFormat class.

answered Apr 04 '12 at 07:35

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '12 at 08:09

First you create the format using substring like

String myDate = "20120328";
String myConvertedDate = myDate.substring(0,4) + "-" + myDate.substring(5,6) + "-" + myDate.substring(7);

This produces the date as 2012-03-28

Then use simple date format to convert that into date if required.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 03 '20 at 06:48

You can use this one for Date formatting

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Date date = new Date();
String ourformat = formatter.format(date.getTime());

And this one for getting TimeStamp

    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
    Timestamp timestamp =timestamp=new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());
    String ourformat = formatter.format(timestamp);

Convert date into specific format

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