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

try this way

String mydate = "2011-11-29 12:34:25"
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
Date date = null;

try{
   date = sdf.parse(mydate);
   SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
   String mydate = dateFormat.format(date);
}catch(Exception ex){
   // handle exception
}