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Jack
Jack

Reputation: 6600

How to format a date to following format day.month.year?

I need to format a date to following format: 10.12.2014 and I am using the following code but it returns following error

   Messages:    
   Unparseable date: "2014-12-10"

Code

   SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.mm.yyyy");
   Date date = formatter.parse(param.getFromDate());
   String formattedDate = formatter.format(date);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 11070

Answers (3)

Mustafa sabir
Mustafa sabir

Reputation: 4360

Change your date format, you are parsing yyyy-MM-dd and providing format as yyyy.MMMM.dd:-

 SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
 Date date = formatter.parse(param.getFromDate());
 String formattedDate = formatter.format(date);

Edit:- you updated format input to dd.mm.yyyy , which again is wrong, and above solution is valid in this case too.

Also you want the date output as 10.12.2014, which you can do by creating new formatter and parsing the date to string using it:-

formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy");
String formattedDate2 = formatter.format(date); //

Upvotes: 3

ngrashia
ngrashia

Reputation: 9884

Unparseable date means your input dateString value is not in the same format as expected. For example, if your dateString is 2014-12-10 (yyyy-MM-dd) , if you try to format it to dd-MM-yyyy, then this exception will occur.

The following code will help you.!

// Existing date is in this format : "2014-12-10"
SimpleDateFormat formatFrom = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

// Required date is in this format : 10.12.2014
SimpleDateFormat formatTo = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy");

// Convert the String  param.getFromDate()==>2014-12-10 to a Date
Date date = formatFrom .parse(param.getFromDate());

// Convert Date to String 10.12.2014
String formattedDate = formatTo .format(date);

Upvotes: 5

Jackson Hurt
Jackson Hurt

Reputation: 312

check this out: Java Docs for SimpleDateFormat

contains all the pattern letters for date and time, helped me a lot when i was looking onto how to implement date and time in my app.

Upvotes: 0

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