How to convert a date in this format (Tue Jul 13 00:00:00 CEST 2010) to a Java Date (The string comes from an alfresco property)

Question

i\'m managing a date that comes from an Alfresco Properties and is in the specified (Tue Jul 13 00:00:00 CEST 2010) and i need to convert it to a Java date...i\'ve looked ar

Answer 1

Try this function I had the same issue.

public String getMyDate(String myDate, String requiredFormat, String mycurrentFormat) {
    DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(returnFormat);
    Date date = null;
    String returnValue = "";
    try {
        date = new SimpleDateFormat(myFormat, Locale.ENGLISH).parse(myDate);
        returnValue = dateFormat.format(date);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        returnValue = myDate;
    }
    return returnValue;
}

Example:

Wed May 06 13:01:29 EDT 2020 i.e "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy" is mycurrentFormat

4.May.2020 i.e. "d.MMM.yyyy" is my requiredFormat

Date date = new Date();

getMyDate(date.toString(), "d.MMM.yyyy", "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy")