convert String to Date Format

[Jayanthi Sampath]

Hi,

I need to convert String("dd-MM-yyyy") format to Date("yyyy-MM-dd")format.


(i.e) String startDate = "23-09-2008" to Date dt = "2008-09-23" as output

Can anyone help me on this?

Thanks

[Ola Daniel]

Google up SimpleDateFormat i.e. java.text.SimpleDateFormat and you will get what you need.

[tuty sra]

hi jay,
you can use
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat=new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
Date date=simpleDateFormat.parse("23-09-2008");

[Bear Bibeault]

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[Rob Spoor]

Also note that a Date does not care about formatting. Yes, it does have a toString method, but it uses the system default formatting. Therefore, Date ("yyyy-MM-dd") format means nothing - you have to use another SimpleDateFormat to format the Date object in another String.

[Henry Wong]

Originally posted by tuty sra:
hi jay,
you can use
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat=new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
Date date=simpleDateFormat.parse("23-09-2008");

And actually, you need to convert twice. First, you need to convert the string to the Date object using the first format. Then you need to convert the Date object back to a string using the second format, so that the string may be printed.

Alternatively, you can just do a string.replaceFirst() call, and bypass the Date object altogether.

Henry