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I'd like to convert a date in date1 format to a date object in date2 format.

SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM dd, yyyy");

SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(2012, 8, 21);
Date date = cal.getTime();
Date date1 = simpleDateFormat.parse(date);
Date date2 = simpleDateFormat.parse(date1);
println date1
println date2

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asked Sep 19 '12 at 22:00

Phoenix
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I have created a simple method to do this. refer to stackoverflow.com/a/40042733/4531507 – Rahul Sharma Oct 14 '16 at 12:34

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Use SimpleDateFormat#format :

DateFormat originalFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM dd, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);

DateFormat targetFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
Date date = originalFormat.parse("August 21, 2012");
String formattedDate = targetFormat.format(date); // 20120821

Also note that parse takes a String , not a Date object, which is already parsed.
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edited Sep 19 '12 at 22:21

answered Sep 19 '12 at 22:01

João Silva
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This is what I tried and it threw an exception – Phoenix Sep 19 '12 at 22:08

you'd need to wrap Date parsedDate = simpleDateFormat1.parse(formattedDate); with try catch as it'd throw parseexception. – PermGenError Sep 19 '12 at 22:09

What are the exact inputs you are trying to parse? Try this demo ideone.com/Hr6B0. Perhaps you are passing an invalid Date ? – João Silva Sep 19 '12 at 22:11

My input is a string of this format August 21, 2012 and I need to save it as another string of format 20120821 – Phoenix Sep 19 '12 at 22:12

@Phoenix: Are you setting the Locale to Locale.ENGLISH of the first SimpleDateFormat ? Otherwise, if you are on a non-english Locale , August will not be parsed
correctly and will throw a ParseException. – João Silva Sep 19 '12 at 22:12

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tl;dr
LocalDate.parse(
"January 08, 2017" ,
DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( "MMMM dd, uuuu" , Locale.US )
).format( DateTimeFormatter.BASIC_ISO_DATE )

Using java.time

The Question and other Answers use troublesome old date-time classes, now legacy, supplanted by the java.time classes.

You have date-only values, so use a date-only class. The LocalDate class represents a date-only value without time-of-day and without time zone.

String input = "January 08, 2017";

Locale l = Locale.US ;
DateTimeFormatter f = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( "MMMM dd, uuuu" , l );
LocalDate ld = LocalDate.parse( input , f );

Your desired output format is defined by the ISO 8601 standard. For a date-only value, the “expanded” format is YYYY-MM-DD such as 2017-01-08 and the
“basic” format that minimizes the use of delimiters is YYYYMMDD such as 20170108 .

I strongly suggest using the expanded format for readability. But if you insist on the basic format, that formatter is predefined as a constant on the
DateTimeFormatter class named BASIC_ISO_DATE .

String output = ld.format( DateTimeFormatter.BASIC_ISO_DATE );

See this code run live at IdeOne.com.

ld.toString(): 2017-01-08

output: 20170108

About java.time

The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date ,
Calendar , & SimpleDateFormat .

The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.

To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310.

Where to obtain the java.time classes?

Java SE 8 and SE 9 and later

Built-in.
Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.
Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes.
Java SE 6 and SE 7
Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport.
Android
The ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport (mentioned above) for Android specifically.
See How to use ThreeTenABP….

The ThreeTen-Extra project extends java.time with additional classes. This project is a proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. You may find
some useful classes here such as Interval , YearWeek , YearQuarter , and more.
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edited May 23 '17 at 11:33

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answered Feb 15 '17 at 4:28

Basil Bourque
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Using Java 8, we can achieve this as follows:

private static String convertDate(String strDate)

{
//for strdate = 2017 July 25

DateTimeFormatter f = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder().appendPattern("yyyy MMMM dd")

.toFormatter();

LocalDate parsedDate = LocalDate.parse(strDate, f);

DateTimeFormatter f2 = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM/d/yyyy");

String newDate = parsedDate.format(f2);

return newDate;
}

The output will be : "07/25/2017"

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answered Jul 26 '17 at 9:58

 KayV
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Please refer to the following method. It takes your date String as argument1, you need to specify the existing format of the date as argument2, and the result
(expected) format as argument 3.

Refer to this link to understand various formats: Available Date Formats

public static String formatDateFromOnetoAnother(String date,String givenformat,String resultformat) {

String result = "";

SimpleDateFormat sdf;
SimpleDateFormat sdf1;

try {
sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(givenformat);
sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat(resultformat);
result = sdf1.format(sdf.parse(date));
}
catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return "";
}
finally {
sdf=null;
sdf1=null;
}
return result;
}

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edited May 4 '16 at 16:57

Peter Mortensen
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answered Feb 5 '15 at 9:05

ThmHarsh
450 6 5

Hope this will help someone.

public static String getDate(

String date, String currentFormat, String expectedFormat)
throws ParseException {
// Validating if the supplied parameters is null
if (date == null || currentFormat == null || expectedFormat == null ) {
return null;
}
// Create SimpleDateFormat object with source string date format
SimpleDateFormat sourceDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(currentFormat);
// Parse the string into Date object
Date dateObj = sourceDateFormat.parse(date);
// Create SimpleDateFormat object with desired date format
SimpleDateFormat desiredDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(expectedFormat);
// Parse the date into another format
return desiredDateFormat.format(dateObj).toString();
}

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answered Mar 30 '17 at 9:55

Dinesh Lomte
111 3

Try this
This is the simplest way of changing one date format to another
public String changeDateFormatFromAnother(String date){
@SuppressLint("SimpleDateFormat") DateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
@SuppressLint("SimpleDateFormat") DateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMMM yyyy");
String resultDate = "";
try {
resultDate=outputFormat.format(inputFormat.parse(date));
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return resultDate;
}

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edited Mar 11 '18 at 9:24

answered Mar 10 '18 at 17:16

Sunil
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import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

String fromDateFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy";

String fromdate = 15/03/2018; //Take any date

String CheckFormat = "dd MMM yyyy";//take another format like dd/MMM/yyyy

String dateStringFrom;

Date DF = new Date();

try
{
//DateFormatdf = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT);
DateFormat FromDF = new SimpleDateFormat(fromDateFormat);
FromDF.setLenient(false); // this is important!
Date FromDate = FromDF.parse(fromdate);
dateStringFrom = new
SimpleDateFormat(CheckFormat).format(FromDate);
DateFormat FromDF1 = new SimpleDateFormat(CheckFormat);
DF=FromDF1.parse(dateStringFrom);
System.out.println(dateStringFrom);
}
catch(Exception ex)
{

System.out.println("Date error");

output:- 15/03/2018
15 Mar 2018

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answered Mar 15 '18 at 5:18

jalpa jogi
1

Kotlin equivalent of answer answered by João Silva

fun getFormattedDate(originalFormat: SimpleDateFormat, targetFormat: SimpleDateFormat, inputDate: String): String {

return targetFormat.format(originalFormat.parse(inputDate))
}

Usage (In Android):

getFormattedDate(
SimpleDateFormat(FormatUtils.d_MM_yyyy, Locale.getDefault()),
SimpleDateFormat(FormatUtils.d_MMM_yyyy, Locale.getDefault()),
dateOfTreatment
)

Note: Constant values:

// 25 Nov 2017
val d_MMM_yyyy = "d MMM yyyy"

// 25/10/2017
val d_MM_yyyy = "d/MM/yyyy"

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answered Aug 29 '18 at 10:28

 Killer
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While SimpleDateFormat is not officially deprecated yet, it is certainly both long outdated and notoriously troublesome. Today we have so much better in java.time , the
modern Java date and time API and its DateTimeFormatter . Yes, you can use it on Android. For older Android see How to use ThreeTenABP in Android Project . – Ole V.V. Aug
29 '18 at 14:18

I didn't knew about that. I will check it soon – Killer Aug 29 '18 at 15:58

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//Convert input format 19-FEB-16 01.00.00.000000000 PM to 2016-02-19 01.00.000 PM

SimpleDateFormat inFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy hh.mm.ss.SSSSSSSSS aaa");
Date today = new Date();

Date d1 = inFormat.parse("19-FEB-16 01.00.00.000000000 PM");

SimpleDateFormat outFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh.mm.ss.SSS aaa");

System.out.println("Out date ="+outFormat.format(d1));

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answered Feb 19 '16 at 21:02

Karthik M
56 5

SimpleDateFormat is limited to parsing millisecond precision, and will corrupt the minutes/seconds if asked to go beyond that. – Robert Dean May 13 '16 at 12:24

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