date object string to date in java

Question

I have string like below and I need to convert this as a date in java

"Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 GMT+05:30 2014"

This is a string representation of the java date object. I get it as a string where I need to parse it like "30 Sep 2014"

I thought if I could get this as a date object I can get whatever format I want using simpledateformat. But the problem is how do I get the date Object from this string

Answer 1

The format you're looking for is this:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss z yyyy");

You can check all the valid formats here http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Answer 2

You can also use SimpleDateFomrat to parse the string into date:

String s = "Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 GMT+05:30 2014";
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy", Locale.US);
System.out.println(df.parse(s));

Answer 3

public static Date convertDate(final String dateValue) {
    final SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy");
    Date date = null;
    try {
        date = format.parse(dateValue);
        return date;
    } catch (final ParseException e) {
        LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
        return null;
    }
}

Answer 4

the java 8 version... and you will find much more entries already exist in stackoverflow.