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How to Format a Date String using SimpleDateFormat in Java?
One of the constructors of this class accepts a String value representing the desired date format and creates SimpleDateFormat class. To parse/convert a string as a Date object −
- Instantiate this class by passing desired format string.
- Parse the date string using the parse() method.
Example
import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; public class Sample { public static void main(String args[]) throws ParseException { String date_string = "2007-25-06"; //Instantiating the SimpleDateFormat class SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-dd-MM"); //Parsing the given String to Date object Date date = formatter.parse(date_string); System.out.println("Date value: "+date); } }
Output
Date value: Mon Jun 25 00:00:00 IST 2007
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