Change date format in a Java string?

Question

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?

Answer 1

There are two ways to do that:

String dateStr = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";

DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); // format 1

DateFormat format2 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"); // format 2

Date date = format.parse(dateStr.split(" ")[0]); // convert to Date object.

Date date1 = format2.parse(dateStr); // convert to Date object.

System.out.println(format.format(date));

System.out.println(format.format(date1));

Let me know if that helps.