How to convert string “2011-11-29 12:34:25” to date in “dd-MM-yyyy” format in JAVA

Question

I am trying to convert date which is in string and got format of \"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss\" to \"dd-MM-yyyy\".

I have implmented following code but its giving : java.

Answer 1

You need to parse the date, using another SimpleDateFormat

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat2 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date date = dateFormat2.parse(values);
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
String mydate = dateFormat.format(date);