JCalendar problem

[Rus Corina]

If anyone here is familiar with JCalendar from toedter, i need some help. I created the component "d" of type JDateChooser, I set the information to be displayed in it to be like this: d.setDateFormatString("dd.MM.yyyy"); the problem is that it displays the date in this form only in the textfield, after i chose the date. In my program, if I try to get the date like this: d.getDate() it returns something like this: Thu Apr 19 17:02:50 EEST 2012. The question is: what can I do to get the date from d in the form dd.MM.yyyy?

[Rob Spoor]

Use a (Simple)DateFormat object. That's probably what the JDateChooser uses internally as well.
The thing is, Date objects don't really have a format. It just contains a moment in time. It does have a format from toString(), but that's more meant for debugging purposes. For anything else a DateFormat is the way to go, as it gives you control over how you want to format the Date.