Difficult trying to convert a String to a Date

[Cesar Coz]

I have this String "Fri Dec 04 00:00:00 GMT-05:00 2015" that i get from a web service and i need to parse it to a Date type in this format "YYYY/MM/DD".

I'm having trouble trying to create the Date variable and i wish someone can help me to fin a way to make this convertion. I always have trouble dealing with Date types

Thanks in advance.

[mike ryan]

Hi Cesar,

I had a problem similar to this myself a couple weeks ago, take a look at that thread ---> here! I think you could use the same tips that i got to take care of your problem as well...

here is another link that may help ---> here!




Mike

[Greg Brannon]

Parse the parts of the string you need:

int year = the "YYYY" portion, converted to an integer,
int month = the "Dec" portion converted to an integer, 0 - 11, and
int day = the "04" portion, converted to an integer.

Then set a Calendar instance:

Calendar date = getInstance();
date.set( year, month, day );

Then you can use the date as a Calendar object or derive from it a Date object, if necessary.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Surely one of the DateFormat classes, eg SimpleDateFormat, will make that easier.

[Cesar Coz]

Thanks for answering so fast, i got the solution with your help. I solved this way

                Date aDate = null;
		String fecha[] = stFecCaduTarjeta.split(" ");
		SimpleDateFormat formater = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
		DateFormat fmt = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.FULL, Locale.US);
		try {
			aDate = fmt.parse(fecha[0]+", "+fecha[1]+" "+fecha[2]+", "+fecha[5]);
		} catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
		      System.out.println(e);
		}
		String fechaFormateada =  formater.format(aDate);

Hope this can help anyone else with this problem and thanks for the help !