date formatting in Java

The Following code show you how to formate the date using the date object and the pattern string (can be :ddmmyyyy,dd/mm/yy ,, etc ) . You can convert from string to date and from date to string .

Code:

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;


public class DateUtils {

    public static String formateDate(Date date, String pattern) {

        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);

        return formatter.format(date);

    }

    public Date convertToDate(String strDate, String pattern) {

        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
        Date date = null;
        System.out.println("Try to convert= " + strDate + " using= " + pattern);
        try {
            date = (Date) formatter.parse(strDate);
        } catch (ParseException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(DateUtils.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
        return date;
    }
}
 

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