Get day, month and year separately using SimpleDateFormat

Question

I have a SimleDateFormat like this

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(\"MMM dd,yyyy  hh:mm\");
String date = format.format(Date.parse(p         


        

Answer 1

The accepted answer here suggests to use more than one SimpleDateFormat, but it's possible to do this using one SimpleDateFormat instance and calling applyPattern.

Note: I believe this post would also be helpful for those who were searching for setPattern() just like me.

Date date=new Date();
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat();
simpleDateFormat.applyPattern("dd");
System.out.println("Day   : " + simpleDateFormat.format(date));
simpleDateFormat.applyPattern("MMM");
System.out.println("Month : " + simpleDateFormat.format(date));
simpleDateFormat.applyPattern("yyyy");
System.out.println("Year  : " + simpleDateFormat.format(date));