How to format LocalDate to string

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I have a LocalDate variable called date when I print it displays 1988-05-05 I need to convert this to be printed as 05 May 1988 How to do this

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There is a built-in way to format LocalDate in Joda library import org joda time LocalDate   LocalDate localDate   LocalDate now    String dateFormat    quot MM dd yyyy quot   localDate toString dateFormat    In case you don t have it already - add this to the build gradle  implementation  joda-time joda-time 2 9 5   Happy coding

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SimpleDateFormat will not work if he is starting with LocalDate which is new in Java 8   From what I can see  you will have to use DateTimeFormatter  http   docs oracle com javase 8 docs api java time format DateTimeFormatter html   LocalDate localDate   LocalDate now     For reference DateTimeFormatter formatter   DateTimeFormatter ofPattern  dd LLLL yyyy    String formattedString   localDate format formatter     That should print 05 May 1988   To get the period after the day and before the month  you might have to use  dd  LLLL yyyy

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With the help of ProgrammersBlock posts I came up with this   My needs were slightly different   I needed to take a string and return it as a LocalDate object   I was handed code that was using the older Calendar and SimpleDateFormat   I wanted to make it a little more current   This is what I came up with       import java time LocalDate      import java time format DateTimeFormatter        void ExampleFormatDate          LocalDate formattedDate   null     Declare LocalDate variable to receive the formatted date      DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormatter     Declare date formatter     String rawDate    2000-01-01      Test string that holds a date to format and parse       dateTimeFormatter   DateTimeFormatter ISO LOCAL DATE         formattedDate parse String string  wraps the String format String string  DateTimeFormatter format  method        First  the rawDate string is formatted according to DateTimeFormatter   Second  that formatted string is parsed into       the LocalDate formattedDate object      formattedDate   formattedDate parse String format rawDate  dateTimeFormatter         Hopefully this will help someone  if anyone sees a better way of doing this task please add your input

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System out println LocalDate now   format DateTimeFormatter ofPattern  dd MMMM yyyy        The above answer shows it for today

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A pretty nice way to do this is to use SimpleDateFormat I ll show you how   SimpleDateFormat sdf   new SimpleDateFormat  d MMMM YYYY    Date d   new Date    sdf format d     I see that you have the date in a variable   sdf format variable name     Cheers

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Could be short as   LocalDate now   format DateTimeFormatter ofPattern  dd MM yyyy

[java] How to format LocalDate to string?

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