How to convert date string to Date data type

Question

I have a

String dateString = "Fri Feb 14 00:00:00 IST 2014";

I need output in Date datatype like 2014-02-14.

Here is the code which is throwing Parse exception.

Need help in this.

public static void main(String args[]){
    DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");

    String dateString = "Fri Feb 14 00:00:00 IST 2014";

        Date convertedDate = null;
        try {
            convertedDate = df.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        System.out.println(convertedDate);

}   

Answer 1

Base point is - Input string should match with date pattern

Raised parse exception as becasue wrong pattern, use this date pattern - EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss z yyyy

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss z yyyy");

Answer 2

You have to convert dateString to matching Date format and then you can format that Date what ever the format you want.

Try this

  DateFormat df1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
  DateFormat df2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss z yyyy");
  String dateString = "Fri Feb 14 00:00:00 IST 2014";
  Date date=df2.parse(dateString); // convert stringDate to matching Date format
  System.out.println(df1.format(date));

Out put:

  2014-02-14 12:00:00

Answer 3

Try this:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss z yyyy");

    String dateString = "Fri Feb 14 00:00:00 IST 2014";

    Date convertedDate = null;
    try {
        convertedDate = df.parse(dateString);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    System.out.println(convertedDate);
}