I've a String representing a date.
String date_s = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
I'd like to convert it to a Date and output it in YYYY-MM-DD format.
2011-01-18
How can I achieve this?
Okay, based on the answers I retrieved below, here's something I've tried:
String date_s = " 2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
SimpleDateFormat dt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss");
Date date = dt.parse(date_s);
SimpleDateFormat dt1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyy-mm-dd");
System.out.println(dt1.format(date));
But it outputs 02011-00-1 instead of the desired 2011-01-18. What am I doing wrong?
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You can just use:
Date yourDate = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat DATE_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String date = DATE_FORMAT.format(yourDate);
It works perfectly!
Other answers are correct, basically you had the wrong number of "y" characters in your pattern.
One more problem though… You did not address time zones. If you intended UTC, then you should have said so. If not, the answers are not complete. If all you want is the date portion without the time, then no issue. But if you do further work that may involve time, then you should be specifying a time zone.
Here is the same kind of code but using the third-party open-source Joda-Time 2.3 library
// © 2013 Basil Bourque. This source code may be used freely forever by anyone taking full responsibility for doing so.
String date_s = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter formatter = org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat.forPattern( "yyyy-MM-dd' 'HH:mm:ss.SSS" );
// By the way, if your date-time string conformed strictly to ISO 8601 including a 'T' rather than a SPACE ' ', you could
// use a formatter built into Joda-Time rather than specify your own: ISODateTimeFormat.dateHourMinuteSecondFraction().
// Like this:
//org.joda.time.DateTime dateTimeInUTC = org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat.dateHourMinuteSecondFraction().withZoneUTC().parseDateTime( date_s );
// Assuming the date-time string was meant to be in UTC (no time zone offset).
org.joda.time.DateTime dateTimeInUTC = formatter.withZoneUTC().parseDateTime( date_s );
System.out.println( "dateTimeInUTC: " + dateTimeInUTC );
System.out.println( "dateTimeInUTC (date only): " + org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat.date().print( dateTimeInUTC ) );
System.out.println( "" ); // blank line.
// Assuming the date-time string was meant to be in Kolkata time zone (formerly known as Calcutta). Offset is +5:30 from UTC (note the half-hour).
org.joda.time.DateTimeZone kolkataTimeZone = org.joda.time.DateTimeZone.forID( "Asia/Kolkata" );
org.joda.time.DateTime dateTimeInKolkata = formatter.withZone( kolkataTimeZone ).parseDateTime( date_s );
System.out.println( "dateTimeInKolkata: " + dateTimeInKolkata );
System.out.println( "dateTimeInKolkata (date only): " + org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat.date().print( dateTimeInKolkata ) );
// This date-time in Kolkata is a different point in the time line of the Universe than the dateTimeInUTC instance created above. The date is even different.
System.out.println( "dateTimeInKolkata adjusted to UTC: " + dateTimeInKolkata.toDateTime( org.joda.time.DateTimeZone.UTC ) );
When run…
dateTimeInUTC: 2011-01-18T00:00:00.000Z
dateTimeInUTC (date only): 2011-01-18
dateTimeInKolkata: 2011-01-18T00:00:00.000+05:30
dateTimeInKolkata (date only): 2011-01-18
dateTimeInKolkata adjusted to UTC: 2011-01-17T18:30:00.000Z
remove one y form the format provide to:
SimpleDateFormat dt1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyy-mm-dd");
It should be:
SimpleDateFormat dt1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");
String str = "2000-12-12";
Date dt = null;
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
try
{
dt = formatter.parse(str);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
}
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, formatter.format(dt));
We can convert Today's date in the format of 'JUN 12, 2020'.
String.valueOf(DateFormat.getDateInstance().format(new Date())));
private SimpleDateFormat dataFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
@Override
public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {
if(value instanceof Date) {
value = dataFormat.format(value);
}
return super.getTableCellRendererComponent(table, value, isSelected, hasFocus, row, column);
};
You could try Java 8 new date, more information can be found on the Oracle documentation.
Or you can try the old one
public static Date getDateFromString(String format, String dateStr) {
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
Date date = null;
try {
date = (Date) formatter.parse(dateStr);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return date;
}
public static String getDate(Date date, String dateFormat) {
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat);
return formatter.format(date);
}
Please refer "Date and Time Patterns" here. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.text.ParseException;
public class DateConversionExample{
public static void main(String arg[]){
try{
SimpleDateFormat sourceDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-DD HH:mm:ss");
Date date = sourceDateFormat.parse("2011-01-18 00:00:00.0");
SimpleDateFormat targetDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
System.out.println(targetDateFormat.format(date));
}catch(ParseException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
[edited to include BalusC's corrections] The SimpleDateFormat class should do the trick:
String pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S";
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
try {
Date date = format.parse("2011-01-18 00:00:00.0");
System.out.println(date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Say you want to change 2019-12-20 10:50 AM GMT+6:00 to 2019-12-20 10:50 AM first of all you have to understand the date format first one date format is yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm a zzz and second one date format will be yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm a
just return a string from this function like.
public String convertToOnlyDate(String currentDate) {
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm a ");
Date date;
String dateString = "";
try {
date = dateFormat.parse(currentDate);
System.out.println(date.toString());
dateString = dateFormat.format(date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return dateString;
}
This function will return your desire answer. If you want to customize more just add or remove component from the date format.
SimpleDateFormat dt1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");
Using the java.time package in Java 8 and later:
String date = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
TemporalAccessor temporal = DateTimeFormatter
.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S")
.parse(date); // use parse(date, LocalDateTime::from) to get LocalDateTime
String output = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd").format(temporal);
Formatting are CASE-SENSITIVE so USE MM for month not mm (this is for minute) and yyyy For Reference you can use following cheatsheet.
G Era designator Text AD
y Year Year 1996; 96
Y Week year Year 2009; 09
M Month in year Month July; Jul; 07
w Week in year Number 27
W Week in month Number 2
D Day in year Number 189
d Day in month Number 10
F Day of week in month Number 2
E Day name in week Text Tuesday; Tue
u Day number of week (1 = Monday, ..., 7 = Sunday) Number 1
a Am/pm marker Text PM
H Hour in day (0-23) Number 0
k Hour in day (1-24) Number 24
K Hour in am/pm (0-11) Number 0
h Hour in am/pm (1-12) Number 12
m Minute in hour Number 30
s Second in minute Number 55
S Millisecond Number 978
z Time zone General time zone Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00
Z Time zone RFC 822 time zone -0800
X Time zone ISO 8601 time zone -08; -0800; -08:00
Examples:
"yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z" 2001.07.04 AD at 12:08:56 PDT
"EEE, MMM d, ''yy" Wed, Jul 4, '01
"h:mm a" 12:08 PM
"hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz" 12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time
"K:mm a, z" 0:08 PM, PDT
"yyyyy.MMMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa" 02001.July.04 AD 12:08 PM
"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z" Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700
"yyMMddHHmmssZ" 010704120856-0700
"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'" 2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-0700
"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX" 2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-07:00
"YYYY-'W'ww-u" 2001-W27-3
public class SystemDateTest {
String stringDate;
public static void main(String[] args) {
SystemDateTest systemDateTest = new SystemDateTest();
// format date into String
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss");
systemDateTest.setStringDate(simpleDateFormat.format(systemDateTest.getDate()));
System.out.println(systemDateTest.getStringDate());
}
public Date getDate() {
return new Date();
}
public String getStringDate() {
return stringDate;
}
public void setStringDate(String stringDate) {
this.stringDate = stringDate;
}
}
Use LocalDateTime#parse() (or ZonedDateTime#parse() if the string happens to contain a time zone part) to parse a String in a certain pattern into a LocalDateTime.
String oldstring = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
LocalDateTime datetime = LocalDateTime.parse(oldstring, DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S"));
Use LocalDateTime#format() (or ZonedDateTime#format()) to format a LocalDateTime into a String in a certain pattern.
String newstring = datetime.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd"));
System.out.println(newstring); // 2011-01-18
Or, when you're not on Java 8 yet, use SimpleDateFormat#parse() to parse a String in a certain pattern into a Date.
String oldstring = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S").parse(oldstring);
Use SimpleDateFormat#format() to format a Date into a String in a certain pattern.
String newstring = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(date);
System.out.println(newstring); // 2011-01-18
Update: as per your failed attempt: the patterns are case sensitive. Read the java.text.SimpleDateFormat javadoc what the individual parts stands for. So stands for example M for months and m for minutes. Also, years exist of four digits yyyy, not five yyyyy. Look closer at the code snippets I posted here above.
You can also use substring()
String date_s = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
date_s.substring(0,10);
If you want a space in front of the date, use
String date_s = " 2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
date_s.substring(1,11);
The answer is of course to create a SimpleDateFormat object and use it to parse Strings to Date and to format Dates to Strings. If you've tried SimpleDateFormat and it didn't work, then please show your code and any errors you may receive.
Addendum: "mm" in the format String is not the same as "MM". Use MM for months and mm for minutes. Also, yyyyy is not the same as yyyy. e.g.,:
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class FormateDate {
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
String date_s = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
// *** note that it's "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss" not "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss"
SimpleDateFormat dt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
Date date = dt.parse(date_s);
// *** same for the format String below
SimpleDateFormat dt1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
System.out.println(dt1.format(date));
}
}
try
{
String date_s = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
SimpleDateFormat simpledateformat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S");
Date tempDate=simpledateformat.parse(date_s);
SimpleDateFormat outputDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
System.out.println("Output date is = "+outputDateFormat.format(tempDate));
} catch (ParseException ex)
{
System.out.println("Parse Exception");
}
Why not simply use this
Date convertToDate(String receivedDate) throws ParseException{
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
Date date = formatter.parse(receivedDate);
return date;
}
Also, this is the other way :
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
String requiredDate = df.format(new Date()).toString();
or
Date requiredDate = df.format(new Date());
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