How to get the given date string format(pattern) in java?

Question

I want to get the format of a given date string.

Example: I have a string like 2011-09-27T07:04:21.97-05:00 and the date format of this string is

Answer 1

You will need to take the inital date string and covert it to a date object and pass that converted date object and format it to your required string.