Question

I am trying to convert a date in this format: “Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:30 PM” to a
timestamp value in this format: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.

example:

String str = 'Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:30 PM' should output: "2013-01-14 23:59:59"

Here is what I’ve tried:

String string = "January 2, 2010";
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(string); 
System.out.println(date);

This outputs: Sat Jan 02 00:00:00 GMT+05:30 2010

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

String str = "Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:30 PM";          
SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd, yyyy hh:mm a");
Date date = sdf1.parse(str);
System.out.println("Date Object:" + date);
SimpleDateFormat sdf2 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm a");
System.out.println("Formatted Date:" + sdf2.format(date));

Output:

Date Object: Fri Mar 01 16:30:00 EST 2013 

Formatted Date: 2013-03-01 16:30 PM