Help in using DateFormat

[Tony Evans]

I have a method that will take in a string and convert it into a Date using DateFormat.

The problem is that I am not sure what the format the string should take.

I used the date : "15-Jul-1999" which through up a java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "15-Jul-1999"
All I need is the day month and year not the time.

Thanks for any help

Tony

public void setMaturityDate(String date)
{
DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance();
try
{
this.maturityDate = df.parse(date);
}
catch(ParseException e)
{
System.out.println("Error "+e);
}
}

[Nathaniel Stoddard]

You can read the API docs and see for yourself, but it won't parse that text at all. Read the docs and see what it expects.

[Tony Evans]

Thanks Nathaniel, where can I get these docs online.

[yacoob ali]

Hi Tony,

You can try this

    public void setMaturityDate(String date)
    {
        DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT);
        try
        {
            System.out.println("date = " + date);
            java.util.Date maturityDate = df.parse(date);
            System.out.println("After Parsing date = " + maturityDate);
            java.text.SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat ("MM/dd/yyyy");
            System.out.println("formatter.format(maturityDate)------->"+formatter.format(maturityDate));;
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
 
  

In the above code you can see after the parsing it gives with the time then you can format the date to whatever format you want.

You can also have a look at these links

http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2003/tt0624.html#2
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/format/dateFormat.html

Hope this helps