How to get a Date object from String

Question

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(\"MM/dd/yyyy\' \'HH:mm:ss\");
Date d = (Date)formatter.parse(dateTime);
System.out.println(\"date in controller \"+d);
         


        

Answer 1

Don't see why the single-qoutes (') are used in the format-string and you also need to catch ParseException:

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
Date d = new Date();
try {
    d = (Date)formatter.parse("12/31/2012 12:13:14");
} catch(ParseException pex) { System.out.println(pex.getMessage()); }
// convert the date into java.sql.Date
java.sql.Date sqldate = new java.sql.Date(d.getTime());
// then put it in the database, something like this:
//resultSet.updateDate("myDateTimeField", sqldate);