How to change the date format in Ireport 4.5

Question

I have given text field expression new.java.util.Date() and pattern MMMMM dd, yyyy as the mentioned format.

The date must display like: jan 13, 2012 but it's displaying in some other format: Fri Jan 13 08:30:12 IST 2012.

So how to print the date in the mentioned format. And one thing in preview the date displays correctly as mentioned but inside my application it displays Fri Jan 13 08:30:12 IST 2012 format. Is there any way to make it to work properly?

Answer 1

new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy ").format(new Date()) 

Put the above line in text field so you will get your Date format

Answer 2

Use this below method..hope it will help to you

public static String getDateTimeForUgcServer(String date)
    {

        SimpleDateFormat intputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
        Date dt = new Date();
        try
        {
            dt = intputFormat.parse(date);
        }
        catch (ParseException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        SimpleDateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
        String str = outputFormat.format(dt);
        return str;
    }