date formatting in Java

Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:49 pm

The Following code show you how to formate the date using the date object and the pattern string (can be :ddmmyyyy,dd/mm/yy ,, etc ) . You can convert from string to date and from date to string .

Code:: import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import java.util.logging.Level; import java.util.logging.Logger; public class DateUtils { public static String formateDate(Date date, String pattern) { SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern); return formatter.format(date); } public Date convertToDate(String strDate, String pattern) { SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern); Date date = null; System.out.println("Try to convert= " + strDate + " using= " + pattern); try { date = (Date) formatter.parse(strDate); } catch (ParseException ex) { Logger.getLogger(DateUtils.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); } return date; } }

date formatting in Java

date formatting in Java

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