String Date Conversion Java Example

String Date Conversion Java Example

These thing always should be handy or we should have some place where we can refer. Below is an example:

package com.datetest;

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateFormatSample {
	
    public static final String DATE_FORMAT = "MM/dd/yyyy";
    public static final String TIME_FORMAT = "MM/dd/yy hh:mm:ss.SSS a z";
    public static final String LONG_TIME_FORMAT = "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy";

	public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
		
		String date = "Tue Oct 18 12:39:35 EDT 2016"; // Its LONG_TIME_FORMAT as shown above
		
		SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(LONG_TIME_FORMAT);
		
		Date newDate = simpleDateFormat.parse(date);
		
		System.out.println("String to date converted :"+newDate);
		
		simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT);
		
		System.out.println("Date to string conversion: "+simpleDateFormat.format(newDate));
		

	}

}

• Output:

Reference:

• SimpleDateFormat