String to Date in Java

Question

HI,

I am converting String to Date format. But it returns wrong dates. for example,

String startDate = \"08-05-2010\"; //  (MM/dd/yyyy)

Answer 1

If you want to convert a date string of one format to another format, you can use format() and parse() methods of SimpleDateFormat class

First you need to parse the string to a date object using parse() method setting the source pattern and then format the date object using format() method setting the target pattern:

SimpleDateFormat sourceFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
Date sourceFormatDate = sourceFormat.parse("08-05-2010");
SimpleDateFormat destFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy");
String destFormatDateString = destFormat.format(sourceFormatDate);
System.out.println(destFormatDateString); // 05-Aug-10