How to convert a formated date "2001/03/09" as String object that is "YYYY/MM/DD" into a java.util.Date object.

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import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;

public class DateFormatTest
{
  public DateFormatTest()
  {
    String dateString = "2001/03/09";
    
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/mm/dd");
    Date convertedDate = dateFormat.parse(dateString);

    System.out.println("Converted string to date : " + convertedDate);
  }

  public static void main(String[] argv)
  {
    new DateFormatTest();
  }
}



}

The Format String should be SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd"); Upper case MM represents month... lower case mm means minutes.

Thank you Stefan Avigue for the reply, I was really struggling for why the format is getting wrong.

I feel u can use the toString() directly after having obtained the date from the Collections package from the java.util.Date itself.

See if it works.

Prasath

Have a look at:

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/qow/archive/120/index.html

cheers,

It's not easy to convert String to date in multi-threading environment, because SimpleDateFormat is not thread-safe. See this tutorial to learn how we can use SimpleDateFormat safely to convert String to Date in Java.