How to convert a String to Date of format yyyy-MM-dd HH:MM:ss [duplicate]

Answer 1

try format string like: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss

M : month, m: minute

public static void main(String [] args){
    String dateString = "2015-07-16 17:07:21";
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
    Date date;
    try {
        date = sdf.parse(dateString);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return;
    } 
    System.out.println(sdf.format(date));
    System.out.println(dateString.equals(sdf.format(date)));
}

also, a date does not have a format, it has a value representing a point in time. if you want to display it in some format you should use SimpleDateFormat