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Converting/formatting a date

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Nate Tompkins

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Nickname: technoman
Registered: Jun, 2006

Converting/formatting a date

Posted: Jun 19, 2006 5:05 PM

I'm kind of new to Java. I'm using a report writer which is based on Java. I have a java.util.Date parameter that prompts the user for a date. The user types in 01/05/2004, but it gets stored as: Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 CST 2004. I have no control over that. Is there any way that I can convert or format that to the format: mm/dd/yyyy and store that into another variable so it contains 01/05/2004? Do I do something like this?:
new SimpleDateFormat("mm/dd/yyyy").parse(Entered_Date.toString()

Thanks.

Matthias Neumair

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Nickname: neumi
Registered: Sep, 2003

Re: Converting/formatting a date

Posted: Jun 19, 2006 10:52 PM

It doesn't even get stored the way you mentioned, that's just the standard String output.

Use the class java.text.DateFormat to format your date.
Create a new instance of this class, set the format you like, then use the format(Date) method to get your String representation.

Nate Tompkins

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Nickname: technoman
Registered: Jun, 2006

Re: Converting/formatting a date

Posted: Jun 20, 2006 4:24 PM

That's what I don't understand. I've looked at the API for java.text.DateFormat, but can't see how to format the date into MM/dd/yyyy.

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