How to print default date in required format

[Priya Sri]

Hi friends,

I was not able to print date in required format....

Iam getting current date using

Date mydate=new Date();

By printing mydate , it is showing date in long format....
How should i get my date in simple format like "29/10/2004"

I tried using SimpleDateFormat and DateFormat.. But I was not able to get it...

Thanx in advance..
bye

[Paul Sturrock]

But I was not able to get it...

Well, SimpleDateFormat is the simple way of doing this. What went wrong?

[Fisher Daniel]

Hi,
I usually using DateFormatUtils from org.apache.commons.lang.time to convert date into a specific format.

  
public static final String DATE_FORMAT = "dd/MM/yyyy";
 
public static String formatDateToString(Date date) {
    return (date == null) ? "" : DateFormatUtils.format(date, DATE_FORMAT);
}

Hope this help...
Correct me if I am wrong
daniel

[Sunil Manheri]

 
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MMM/dd");
String dt = dateFormat.format(new Date());
System.out.println(dt); 

[Priya Sri]

Thank u...

I got it...