Java format yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSz to yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss

Question

I\'m trying to format a date in yyyy-MM-dd\'T\'HH:mm:ss.SSSz format to yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss, which should be easy but I can\'t get it to work.

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Answer 1

I was trying to format the date string received from a JSON response e.g. 2016-03-09T04:50:00-0800 to yyyy-MM-dd. So here's what I tried and it worked and helped me assign the formatted date string a calendar widget.

String DATE_FORMAT_I = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss";
String DATE_FORMAT_O = "yyyy-MM-dd";


SimpleDateFormat formatInput = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT_I);
SimpleDateFormat formatOutput = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT_O);

Date date = formatInput.parse(member.getString("date"));
String dateString = formatOutput.format(date);

This worked. Thanks.