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Message:

How many more date formatting???

Posted by Kishori Sharan on September 11, 2000 at 8:06 PM

Hi
Here is a small program which does your date formatting the way you want.
Thanx
Kishori

/////////////////////Test.java

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

public class Test {

public static void main ( String[] args ) {

// ParsePosition object is required to parse your date string "10.04/2000"
ParsePosition pp = new ParsePosition ( 0 ) ;

// This is your string ( which contains date )
String date = "10/04/2000" ;

// Use the correct date format dd/MM/yyyy then only your date in string
// "date" will be converted to a Date object correctly
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat ( "dd/MM/yyyy");

// First parse your date in string to a Date object using
// correct format
Date dt = df.parse ( date, pp ) ;

// Change the format you want to display your Date object in
df.applyPattern ( "dd MMM yyyy" ) ;
System.out.println ( df.format ( dt ) ) ;

}

}