Question

How to convert a String to DateFormat in java?

I am writing a application where I want to convert a string “20050105000200” to “2005-01-05 00:02:00”. Is there a direct way to do it in Java? I want both input and output in String. Please let me know if there is a way to do it directly.

Can you give me some simple codes?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use SimpleDateFormat to parse the input date, and then again to format the output

SimpleDateFormat inFmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
SimpleDateFormat outFmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date d = inFmt.parse("20050105000200");
System.out.println(outFmt.format(d));