Can't convert String to Date...

[Elahe Shafie]

Dear Friends,
I defined these two variables as a date
Date dateWork
Date ConvertedDate
and I don't know why it gives me this error message? and doesn't accept it. how can I solve it?
ConvertedDate = formatter.format(dateWork);
Thanks,
Elahe
Error
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Incompatible type for =. Can't convert String to Date.
ConvertedDate = formatter.format(dateWork);
^
1 error

[Col Bell]

If you take a look at the JavaDoc for the format() function you'll see it is defined like:

public final String format(Date date)

That is it returns a String object, not a Date. The purpose of the function is to give you the passed Date object in a human-readable form.
[ April 13, 2002: Message edited by: Col Bell ]