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

The IllegalArgumentException probably occurs when program trying to construct Date object

What's the value ?

Following code snippet runs correctly.

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date date = new Date();
String mydate = dateFormat.format(date);

System.out.println(mydate);

Output :

29/11/2011