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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
Updated on: 06-Feb-2021
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