Question

I am writing a application where I want to convert a string “2011-07-17 08:05:50” to “Jul 17 08:05AM”. 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. Thank you for your time and help.

Answer 1

Use SimpleDateFormat,

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      SimpleDateFormat sdfSource = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
      Date date = sdfSource.parse("2011-07-17 08:05:50");
      SimpleDateFormat sdfDestination = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd hh:mma");
      System.out.println(sdfDestination.format(date));
  }
}

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