I am trying to convert the below mentioned date into yyyMMdd by using below mentioned code.
String dateString = "1st August 2012";
SimpleDateFormat simp_date=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
try
{
dateString=simp_date.format(new Date(dateString));
}
catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
I am getting below excpetion.
IllegalArgumentException
Could someone help me out ? Thanks in advance.
First of all, you should not use the constructor Date(String), as it's deprecated. What you need here is to first parse the date string using a format to convert it to a Date object, and then format that Date object to the required format.
The following code would work:
String dateString = "1st August 2012";
// Format for parsing the dateString
SimpleDateFormat parser = new SimpleDateFormat("d'st' MMM yyyy");
// To format the resultant Date object to new String format
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
try {
dateString = formatter.format(parser.parse(dateString));
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println(dateString);
I would suggest you to move towards JodaTime, a much powerful DateTime API than Java's Date and Calendar. You will be surprised how easy it is to work with dates with that. In fact Java 8 introduces a completely new datetime API based on JodaTime only.
Try this buddy
java.util.Date ss1=new Date("Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT 2012");
SimpleDateFormat formatter5=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String formats1 = formatter5.format(ss1);
System.out.println(formats1);
Use this code
String date = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(2, 2, Locale.US).format(new Date());
The output will be Nov 15, 2013 2:06:00 PM
I have not tested but I little modified ROHIT's code:
Can You test following code? Pls...
public static void main(String[] args) {
String[] s1 = {"st", "nd", "rd", "th"};
String dateString = "1st August 2012";
for (Object obj : s1) {
SimpleDateFormat parser = new SimpleDateFormat("d'" + obj + "' MMM yyyy");
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
try {
dateString = formatter.format(parser.parse(dateString));
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
System.out.println("Expected OutPut:::" + dateString);
}
SimpleDateFormatinstance for parsing the give dateString