Parsing Date And Time Example

This example shows how to parsing date and time using Format class. In this program we use a pattern of special characters to time format.

Parsing Date And Time Example

This example shows how to parsing date and time using Format class. In this program we use a pattern of special characters to time format.

Parsing Date And Time Example

Parsing Date And Time Example

     

This example shows how to parsing date and time using Format class. In this program we use a pattern of special characters to time format.

Description of the code :

SimpleDateFormat() : SimpleDateFormat class use for formatting and parsing dates. It allows for formatting date into text , parsing text into date and normalization.

format() : This method is used for format Date class object into date / time and appends the it into the StringBuffer.

ParsingDateandTime.java

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;

public class ParsingDateandTime {

  public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {

  String s;
  DateFormat formatter;
  Date date;

  formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy.MM.dd.HH.mm.ss");
  date = (Dateformatter.parse("2002.01.29.08.36.33");
  s = formatter.format(date);
  System.out.println(s);

  formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");
  date = (Dateformatter.parse("Tue, 29 jan 2002 22:14:02 -0500");
  s = formatter.format(date);
  System.out.println(s);
  }
}

Output:
2002.01.29.08.36.33
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 08:44:02 +0530

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