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

Date d = new Date("Mon Sep 14 15:24:40 UTC 2009");
SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/M/yyyy");
String s = new String(f.format(d));