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.

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.

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 = (Date) formatter.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 = (Date) formatter.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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