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Hi,

I have been searching for a solution for a long time and haven't yet found a solution . I am getting a String from another page in JSP and before I need to parse it in a certain format of Date before I Store it into the DB (MySQL).
I have


After this I get an Output of Wed Oct 31 00:00:00 IST 2012 where as I need the Date to be ("yyyy-MM-dd") format and also I want it to be a Date Object. Every time I convert a String into a format it adds Time , Day etc . And when I format it to a particular pattern then it converts it into a String . Can anyone help me ?

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Varun Nambuthiri wrote:... I need the Date to be ("yyyy-MM-dd") format and also I want it to be a Date Object.


A Date doesn't have a format. You can apply a DateFormat to get a String from the Date, formatted the way you like it.

Have you read the API for Date?

The class Date represents a specific instant in time, with millisecond precision.

 
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Hi !

Thanks for the reply Darryl ! I was able to solve it . Actually I didnt know that I could just insert the date as a String and be done with it as the MySQL just converts it into the neccessary format.

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I don't do JDBC, but can't you insert a date as a java.sql.Date? (and wouldn't that be a more correct approach?)
 
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Thanks Darryl for the reply .

Darryl Burke worte :
I don't do JDBC, but can't you insert a date as a java.sql.Date? (and wouldn't that be a more correct approach?)



Well that would be the Case but Then also the conversion of anything into a Date object will lead to appending of the extra information like Day , Time , Time Zone . I dont want that . Well thats not a problem anymore since I was able to insert a String date of that format .

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