Extract date from "Mon Jan 12 06:20:06 IST 1976"

Question

I've a datetime with value

"Mon Jan 12 06:20:06 IST 1976"

How can I extract just the date from it?

12 Jan 1976

Thank you!

You need to first search for existing questions my friend. I'm pretty sure that this question is already answered by a lot many people. — Eiston Dsouza, Jul 20 '18 at 09:28
It is never the same date everywhere on Earth. Is it OK to get the date in the same time zone as in the string (whatever IST means, it’s ambiguous)? — Ole V.V., Jul 20 '18 at 10:11
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score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 21 '18 at 19:06

Using DateTimeFormatter in Java 8, you can easily do the parsing.

String s = "Mon Jan 12 06:20:06 IST 1976";
ZonedDateTime localDateTime = ZonedDateTime.parse(s, DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("E MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy"));

And you can generate String objects, automatically localized.

DateTimeFormatter dateFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDate(FormatStyle.MEDIUM);
DateTimeFormatter timeFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedTime(FormatStyle.MEDIUM);

String date = dateFormatter.format(localDateTime.toLocalDate());
String time = timeFormatter.format(localDateTime.toLocalTime());

Jan 12, 1976

6:20:06 AM

Extract date from "Mon Jan 12 06:20:06 IST 1976"

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