Default JDBC date format when reading date as a string from ResultSet

Question

I\'m looking at some code that basically does the following:

ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery();
String myDateStr = rs.getString(\"MY_DATE\"); //field is of ty         


        

Answer 1

Instead of using

String myDateStr = rs.getString("MY_DATE") 

you should use

Timestamp timestamp = rs.getTimestamp("MY_DATE");

JDBC / Database will handle the date transformation for you.