Question

I am trying to convert date which is in string and got format of “yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss” to “dd-MM-yyyy”.

I have implmented following code but its giving : java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
        Date date = new Date(values);
        String mydate = dateFormat.format(date);

Answer 1

First you have to parse the string representation of your date-time into a Date object.

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date date = (Date)formatter.parse("2011-11-29 12:34:25");

Then you format the Date object back into a String in your preferred format.

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
String mydate = dateFormat.format(date);