How to retrieve chosen date from JDatechooser?

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I am using Eclipse to do a college project on Java. I realized that java does not have a built in date selector like C#, so I downloaded and added JDateChooser. I tried to retrieve the chosen date but it failed:

 String Date = dateChooser.getDate(); //I want to the date to be retrieved as string

Any ideas? Is there some kind of initialization that I must do?

Okay then, what data Type does it return? And how do I get the date from it? — XenonDragon, Apr 08 '14 at 20:41
It might also help if you could tell us which JDateChooser you're using — MadProgrammer, Apr 08 '14 at 20:42
Like most languages, time in Java is representation of a period of time since a fixed moment in time. In Java, this is represented by the number of milliseconds since the unix epoch and is represented by the java.util.Date class — MadProgrammer, Apr 08 '14 at 20:46
I did a google search and found no less then 4 different versions. Where did you download it from? — MadProgrammer, Apr 08 '14 at 20:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 08 '14 at 20:40

If I have the right component, the Java Docs show that the getDate method returns Date

getDate

public java.util.Date getDate()

Returns the date. If the JDateChooser is started with a null date and no date was set by the user, null is returned.

Returns:
the current date

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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Retrieve the date that the user selected by calling getDate(), which returns a Date object. Then convert that object into a String by calling SimpleDateFormat.format():

Date              d;
SimpleDateFormat  sdf;
String            s;

d = dateChooser.getDate();                      // Date selected by user
sdf = SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");  // Or whatever format you need
s = sdf.format(d);                              // Viola

See also: Question 5683728

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Apr 08 '14 at 21:04

David R Tribble

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Hello, and thanks a lot. Everytime I try that, I get an error on dateChooser.getDate(). It says that "dateChooser cannot be resolved" although I am sure that the name in the design is "dateChooser" – XenonDragon Apr 08 '14 at 21:15
I also made sure that it is added to the build path, but I still have the error and cannot run it. Please help me. What are the things that I should do before I am able to use datechooser? I might be missing something – XenonDragon Apr 08 '14 at 21:40

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 14 '22 at 16:56

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String dob =new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy").format(jDateChooser1.getDate());

answered Apr 14 '22 at 16:56

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Your answer could be improved with additional supporting information. Please [edit] to add further details, such as citations or documentation, so that others can confirm that your answer is correct. You can find more information on how to write good answers [in the help center](/help/how-to-answer). – Community Apr 15 '22 at 05:50
Today no one needs `SimpleDateFormat` nor `Date`. We should all be using [java.time, the modern Java date and time API](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/datetime/). Also does your answer provide anything substantial that isn’t already in the accepted answer? – Ole V.V. Apr 15 '22 at 07:27

How to retrieve chosen date from JDatechooser?

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