How to format a date.

[Anthony Smith]

I have a Date object.

I want to print the date like this:

20050808

I use:

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.setTime(shipDate1); //shipDate is my Date Objecy

String date = String.valueOf(c.get(Calendar.YEAR)) + String.valueOf(c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)) +
String.valueOf((Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));

The 0's from the day and month keep getting trimmed. There has to be a clean way to do this.

[Richard Anderson]

There is a clean way to do this.

Take a look at SimpleDateFormat