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A Ba
A Ba

Reputation: 275

In Java, Can the Date type just hold MM-dd-yyyy or just hh:mm:ss?

I am converting epoch format time to the normal format, but when I convert it to date I get, MM-dd-yyyy hh:mm:ss.

If I want to single out just the date or the time I have to use SimpleDateFormat. But this returns a String. I was wondering if there was a way to make this string a Date type.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1345

Answers (2)

Jesper
Jesper

Reputation: 206786

The type java.util.Date is actually a timestamp, it is not much more than a wrapper for a number of milliseconds since 01-01-1970, 00:00:00 UTC. (The class name Date is unfortunately badly chosen).

It is not very well suited for holding just a date or just a time value.

If you are using Java 8, use the new date and time API (package java.time); use for example LocalDate if you need to store a year/month/day, or a LocalTime if you need to store just a time-of-day (hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds).

If you are using Java 7 or older, consider using the equivalent classes in the Joda Time library.

Upvotes: 7

Pavan
Pavan

Reputation: 1289

You can format the date as MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss not (MM-dd-yyyy hh:mm:ss)

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

DateFormat dateformat= new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss");
Date date = dateformat.parse("01-25-1988 23:54:59");
System.out.println(date);
System.out.println(dateformat.format(date));

Upvotes: 0

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