Java date conversion confusion...

[bob reilly]

I'm having an issue converting dates in Java. Here's my syntax:

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String endDateString = dateFormat.format(endDate);      
//  endDateString equals "2009-02-13 00:00:00"    --  output as expected
//  
//  now I want to convert this from String to Date.
//
Date endDateConverted = null;
Date endDate2 = null;
			
try {
	endDateConverted = dateFormat.parse(endDateString);  //  endDateString equals "2009-02-13 00:00:00"
           } catch (ParseException e) {
	// TODO Auto-generated catch block
	e.printStackTrace();
	}

endDate2 = endDateConverted;                        
//  endDate2 equals Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2009  --  
//this format I was not expecting...what am I doing wrong?  I'm expecting "2009-02-13 00:00:00".

Very frustrating. Any constructive comments / criticism is appreciated. Thanking you in advance...

[Henry Wong]

Date objects doesn't have a configurable format. If you just print it, you will get a preset format, as you have seen.

If you want a particular format, you will need to format() it to a string and print it -- as you have done earler in the example.

Henry

[vinay babu reddy]

Hi,

There is no way to convert string object to date object in java, but the vice versa will possible.

[Christophe Verré]

bob, UseCodeTags the next time you post some code. I have added them this time.

[Christophe Verré]

vinay babu reddy wrote:Hi,

There is no way to convert string object to date object in java, but the vice versa will possible.

You might have misunderstood the question. And yes, you can convert strings into dates. That's what dateFormat.parse is doing in the code above.