getDateInstance(?)

[Carl Pettersson]

I am trying to create a variable of type date from user input. I want it to be only a date, not time and other things in the variable, so I thought that parsing the input with
DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT);
would accomplish that (according to the documentation, SHORT would be only a date dd-mm-yyyy). However, when I output the variable, I get the day, time and timezone, which I am not at all intrested in.
Code that parses and saves variable
Date Pn = df.parse(in.readLine());
How should I initialize the DateFormat?

[Rodney Woodruff]

If someone enters 12-12-2003 12:30pm, what does your program output as the date that was entered?

[Carl Pettersson]

Nope... I get this output:
Thu May 26 00:00:00 CET 0018

[Thomas Paul]

Try:
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");

[Carl Pettersson]

Ah, thank you. I still get day of week, time and timezone though... How do I get rid of them?

[Wayne L Johnson]

Create another SimpleDateFormat instance with the format of how you want the output to look, and then call the ".format(...)" method and output the results.

[Thomas Paul]

You have to keep in mind that you are creating a Date object. The SimpleDateFormat used to load the data into the Date object has nothing to do with how the output of the Date object will look. As suggested, you can use the same or a different SimpleDateFormat object to format the Date for output.

[Carl Pettersson]

Thank you very much, I didn't think of that the date could add it's own information