Java format date to string or string to date

 

Reference class:

Java. Text
Dateformat

java.lang.Object  java.text.Format      java.text.DateFormat

All Implemented interfaces:

Serializable, cloneable

Directly known subclass:

Simpledateformat

Constructor Summary
protected	DateFormat() Create a new dateformat.

Letter	Date or time element	Indicates	Example
G	Era identifier	Text	AD
y	Year	Year	1996;96
M	Month in Year	Month	July;Jul;07
w	Week in Year	Number	27
W	The number of weeks in the month	Number	2
D	Days in years	Number	189
d	Days in a month	Number	10
F	Week in the month	Number	2
E	Days in a week	Text	Tuesday;Tue
a	AM/PM mark	Text	PM
H	Hours in a day (0-23)	Number	0
k	Hours per day (1-24)	Number	24
K	Hours in AM/PM (0-11)	Number	0
h	Hours in AM/PM (1-12)	Number	12
m	Minutes in an hour	Number	30
s	Seconds in minutes	Number	55
S	Milliseconds	Number	978
z	Time Zone	General Time Zone	Pacific Standard Time;PST;GMT-08:00
Z	Time Zone	RFC 822 Time Zone	-0800

Date and Time Modes	Result
"yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z"	2001.07.04 AD at 12:08:56 PDT
"EEE, MMM d, ''yy"	Wed, Jul 4, '01
"h:mm a"	12:08 PM
"hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz"	12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time
"K:mm a, z"	0:08 PM, PDT
"yyyyy.MMMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa"	02001.July.04 AD 12:08 PM
"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"	Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700
"yyMMddHHmmssZ"	010704120856-0700
"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ"	2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-0700

String

format(Date date) Format a date as a date/time string.

Date	parse(String source) Analyzes text from the beginning of a given string to generate a date

Public static void main (string [] ARGs) throws parseexception ...{

// String convert to date according the Format String
Date = new date ();
Simpledateformat strtodate = new simpledateformat ("yyyy-mm-dd-hh: mm: SS ");
// Parse format string to date
Date = strtodate. parse ("2000-12-11-06:23:12 ");
System. Out. println (date );

// Date convert to format string according the Format String
Simpledateformat datetostr = new simpledateformat ("dd/mm/yyyy-hh: mm: SS ");
// Parse date to Format String
String temp = datetostr. Format (date );
System. Out. println (temp );

}

 

Mon Dec 11 06:23:12 GMT 2000
11/12/2000-06:23:12