Format date in Java

Question

I have the following string:

Mon Sep 14 15:24:40 UTC 2009

I need to format it into a string like this:

14/9/2009
         


        

Answer 1

You can use SimpleDateFormat class to convert the string you have to a date object. The date format can be given in the constructor. The format method converts the string to a date object.

After getting the date object, you can format it in the way you want.