converting date format

Question

I got date as \'14-Dec-2010\' i want to get the month in number format for the given date. that is., i want to convert the date to \'14-12-2010\'.<

Answer 1

DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
Date date= format.parse("14-Dec-2010");

This is how you will get Date Object now you can print it in any format.
Note: month starts from 0 , so for Dec it would be 11

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