Getting date as a string from util.date object in desired format format

[shuba karthik]

Hi All,

How can I get string from date object in <DD-MM-YYYY HH:MM:SS> format.

TIA,
Shubakarthik

[Ankur Sharma]

You can use parsing of Date Object after taking into in a string variable by DateObject.toString();
Then you can easily get the date format...

Otherwise you can also use DateFormat class in which you have to specify the Date format in which you want to convert.......

[shuba karthik]

Please see the code below

DateFormat startDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat( "dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss" ) ;
startDate = startDateFormat.parse( startDateNode.getText().trim() ) ;

I have the date object now.

Now I want to extract a string in "dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss" this format from util.date object.

Thanks,
Subhakarthik

[Jesper de Jong]

String text = startDateFormat.format(startDate);

See the API documentation of java.text.SimpleDateFormat.

But what is the point, because you already have the date in text format:

startDate = startDateFormat.parse( startDateNode.getText().trim() ) ;

The expression: startDateNode.getText().trim() gives you the date in text format, then you parse it into a Date object. By calling format(), you do the opposite again (format the Date back into a String). You could just as well forget about the whole SimpleDateFormat object:

String text = startDateNode.getText().trim();
[ April 27, 2006: Message edited by: Jesper Young ]