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

Answer 1

Try to use this:

    public static void main(String[] args) {
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
    String dateInString = "2015-07-16 17:07:21";
    try {

        Date date = formatter.parse(dateInString);

        System.out.println(date);
        System.out.println(formatter.format(date));

    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Output:

Thu Jul 16 17:07:21 IST 2015
2015-07-16 17:07:21

Note: For complete date and time patterns, please refer to this http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html