how to extract short date from a full date date string?

Question

i am getting date from webservice

example: Wed, 29 june 2011 07:13:33

now i dont want to show full date with time zone just Wed, 29 june 2011 any one guide me how to achieve this?

any help would be appreciated.

possible duplicate of [Java string to date conversion](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4216745/java-string-to-date-conversion) — David Snabel-Caunt, Jul 12 '11 at 10:26

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 20 '13 at 06:54

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try{
      SimpleDateFormat format1 = new SimpleDateFormat("E ,dd MMM yy hh:mm:ss");   
      SimpleDateFormat format2 = new SimpleDateFormat("E dd-MM-yyyy");    
      Date date = format1.parse(dateStr);     
      System.out.println(format2.format(date));  
 }
 catch(exception e){}

edited May 20 '13 at 06:54

Pank

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answered May 19 '13 at 17:36

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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This problem was already solved on StackOverflow here: Java string to date conversion (that is converting date string to java date)

Here is for your example:

String inDate="Wed, 29 june 2011 07:13:33";
    Date date;
    try {
        date = new SimpleDateFormat("E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(inDate);
        System.out.println(date); //Wed Jun 29 07:13:33 CEST 2011
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Printing out date itself should be the least of your problems

edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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answered Jul 12 '11 at 10:24

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You get an actual date this way. How you will output it is your choice – Bojan Kogoj Jul 12 '11 at 10:34
[Try this](http://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html) and look at the symbol chart (mainly 'E') – IamAlexAlright Jul 12 '11 at 10:34
after converting it to date now i can mention my required format to get appropriate date format. thanks. – UMAR-MOBITSOLUTIONS Jul 12 '11 at 11:02
The OP asked how to get a Date value to a string in the specified format. This answer is the opposite of what was asked. – johnw182 Sep 21 '14 at 22:21
@johnw182 in order to display in different format you must first parse it to be able to display it. Displaying parsed date is not a problem, that's why it's accepted – Bojan Kogoj Sep 21 '14 at 23:26

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