I want to get a formatted Date in Java

Question

I want to get a new Date object with a SimpleDateFormat applied to it. I would like to do something like:

SimpleDateFormat myFormat =         


        

Answer 1

I think what you are trying to achieve does not make sense.

A Date object represents time. You can not format it. But, you can get it's string representation in certain format. Like with myFormat.format(today).