display Java util Date in a specific format

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I have the following scenario    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat   new SimpleDateFormat  dd MM yyyy    System out println dateFormat parse  31 05 2011       gives an output   Tue May 31 00 00 00 SGT 2011   but I want the output to be   31 05 2011    I need to use parse here because the dates need to be sorted as Dates and not as String   Any ideas

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You need to go through SimpleDateFormat format in order to format the date as a string   Here s an example that goes from String -  Date -  String   SimpleDateFormat dateFormat   new SimpleDateFormat  dd MM yyyy    Date date   dateFormat parse  31 05 2011     System out println dateFormat format date         prints 31 05 2011

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This will help you  DateFormat df   new SimpleDateFormat  dd MM yyyy    print  df format new Date

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How about    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat   new SimpleDateFormat  dd MM yyyy    System out println dateFormat format dateFormat parse  31 05 2011        gt  31 05 2011

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java time  Here   s the modern answer       DateTimeFormatter sourceFormatter   DateTimeFormatter ofPattern  dd MM uuuu        DateTimeFormatter displayFormatter   DateTimeFormatter              ofLocalizedDate FormatStyle SHORT               withLocale Locale forLanguageTag  zh-SG          String dateString    31 05 2011       LocalDate date   LocalDate parse dateString  sourceFormatter       System out println date format displayFormatter      Output from this snippet is      31 05 11   See if you can live with the 2-digit year  Or use FormatStyle MEDIUM to obtain 2011 5 31   I recommend you use Java   s built-in date and time formats when you can  It   s easier and lends itself very well to internationalization   If you need the exact format you gave  just use the source formatter as display formatter too       System out println date format sourceFormatter         31 05 2011   I recommend you don   t use SimpleDateFormat  It   s notoriously troublesome and long outdated  Instead I use java time  the modern Java date and time API   To obtain a specific format you need to format the parsed date back into a string  Netiher an old-fashioned Date nor a modern LocalDatecan have a format in it   Link  Oracle tutorial  Date Time explaining how to use java time

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If you want to simply output a date  just use the following   System out printf  Date   1 te  1 tm  1 tY at  1 tH  1 tM  1 tS n   new Date       As seen here  Or if you want to get the value into a String  for SQL building  for example  you can use   String formattedDate   String format   1 te  1 tm  1 tY   new Date       You can also customize your output by following the Java API on Date Time conversions

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I had something like this  my suggestion would be to use java for things like this  don t put in boilerplate code

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It makes no sense  but   System out println dateFormat format dateFormat parse  31 05 2011      SimpleDateFormat parse        parse Date from String SimpleDateFormat format        format Date into String

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You can use simple date format in Java using the code below  SimpleDateFormat simpledatafo   new SimpleDateFormat  dd MM yyyy    Date newDate   new Date    String expectedDate  simpledatafo format newDate

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You already has this  that s what you entered  parse will parse a date into a giving format and print the full date object  toString

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Use the SimpleDateFormat format  SimpleDateFormat sdf   new SimpleDateFormat  dd MM yyyy    Date date   new Date    String sDate  sdf format date

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