Conversion characters for date in Java

Java 8 Object Oriented Programming Programming

The following are the conversion characters for date-time −

Character	Description
c	Complete date and time
F	ISO 8601 date
D	U.S. formatted date (month/day/year)
T	24-hour time
r	12-hour time
R	24-hour time, no seconds
Y	Four-digit year (with leading zeroes)
y	Last two digits of the year (with leading zeroes)
C	First two digits of the year (with leading zeroes)
B	Full month name
b	Abbreviated month name
m	Two-digit month (with leading zeroes)
d	Two-digit day (with leading zeroes)
e	Two-digit day (without leading zeroes)
A	Full weekday name
a	Abbreviated weekday name
j	Three-digit day of year (with leading zeroes)
H	Two-digit hour (with leading zeroes), between 00 and 23
k	Two-digit hour (without leading zeroes), between 0 and 23
I	Two-digit hour (with leading zeroes), between 01 and 12
l	Two-digit hour (without leading zeroes), between 1 and 12
M	Two-digit minutes (with leading zeroes)
S	Two-digit seconds (with leading zeroes)
L	Three-digit milliseconds (with leading zeroes)
N	Nine-digit nanoseconds (with leading zeroes)
P	Uppercase morning or afternoon marker
p	Lowercase morning or afternoon marker
z	RFC 822 numeric offset from GMT
Z	Time zone
s	Seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT
Q	Milliseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT

The following is an example −

Example

Live Demo

import java.util.Calendar;
public class Demo {
   public static void main( String args[] ) {
      Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
      System.out.printf( "%1$tA, %1$tB %1$td, %1$tY
", cal );
      System.out.printf( "%1$ta, %1$tb %1$te, %1$ty
", cal );
   }
}

Output

Monday, November 26, 2018
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Mon, Nov 26, 18

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Conversion characters for date in Java

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Output

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