extract custom date/time from a date variable

Question

How can I shorten the following date below to something like Thursday 19th September

java.util.Date t = MoonPhaseFinder.findFullMoonFollowing(Calendar.getInstance());

the above code prints as follow

Thu Sep 19 21:34:21 EST 2013

Answer 1

Have a try on this :

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE dd'th' MMMM");
System.out.println(sdf.format(t));