Date Format from Date in String to Date

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String to Date in Different Format in Java

Hi,

I m receiving date as String data type in MM/dd/yyyy format and need to convert in data Datatype in format yyyy-MM-dd to store in DB.

Is this a co-incidence? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6027681/parse-short-us-date-into-yyyy-mm-dd-java 5 mins later. ;) — Peter Lawrey, May 17 '11 at 07:42

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 17 '11 at 07:33

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You can use SimpleDateFormat:

SimpleDateFormat sourceFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
SimpleDateFormat destinationFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

String result = sourceFormat.format(destinationFormat.parse(input));

answered May 17 '11 at 07:33

user756901

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 17 '11 at 07:34

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Use formatter for parsing the date to particular type

 String date="07/25/2011";
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
            try {
                Date d=dateFormatter.parse(date);

            } catch (ParseException e) {
                  e.printStackTrace();
            }

answered May 17 '11 at 07:34

Lalchand

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Ugh, try-catch. I was a magnificently stupid idea to make ParseException checked. Now we have to live with it :( – R. Martinho Fernandes May 17 '11 at 07:35

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 17 '11 at 07:47

You can also do it like this

String DATE_FORMAT_NOW = "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss";

//Instance of the calender class in the utill package
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); 

//A class that was used to get the date time stamp
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT_NOW);

To print out the time you say

System.out.println(sdf.format(cal.getTime()) );

Cheers

Date Format from Date in String to Date

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