Setting date into “dd”-“mm”-“yy” format from “dd”-“mm”-“yyyy” in java

Question

I have a date in the format dd-mm-yyyy format(inside my db).I need to convert it to dd-mm-yy format.I retrieved date from db and stored it inside a string.

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Answer 1

Use two SimpleDateFormats, one to parse it, one to format it..

SimpleDateFormat in = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
Date inDate = in.parse(date); // 05-19-1990
SimpleDateFormat out = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yy");
String newDate = out.format(inDate);

or

SimpleDateFormat out = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yy");
String newDate = out.format(inDate);

If you really want 19-05-90 as per the title of your question ;)

Check java.text.SimpleDateFormat for more details