I am trying to conver the string to a date
String date = "12/31/2012";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");
try {
Date parse = sdf.parse(date);
System.out.println(parse);
} catch (ParseException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
But it appears to me that it is having an Exception. of ParseExpception. why is that? I want to generate a date for 12/31/2012
Date String - 12/31/2012
It matches with - MM/dd/yyyy
...
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
format for month is MM not mm and also your should should delimit with - and not / as your formatter delimiter is / and your format should match your date atring.
date 12-31-2012
fmt MM-dd-yyyy
String date = "12-31-2012";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
In modern Java, use only the java.time classes for date-time work. Never use Calendar nor SimpleDateFormat.
DateTimeFormatter f = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern ( "MM/dd/uuuu" ) ;
LocalDate ld = LocalDate.parse ( "12/31/2012" , f ) ;
Generate text in standard ISO 8601 format, YYYY-MM-DD, by simply calling toString.
String output = ld.toString() ;
String dateStr = "11/15/2013";
Date date = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd/MM/yyyy").parseDateTime(dateStr).toDate();
SimpleDateFormatwas a notorious troublemaker of a class. Fortunately it was obsoleted by java.time in Java 8, nearly 11 years ago as of typing.