Question

I have a a field in my database saving a date as DateTime. I wish to change its format to dd-MM-yyyy. Here is my present Java/JSP code but it is returning an exception:

DateFormat formatter ;
Date date;
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy");
date = (Date) formatter.parse(rs.getString("play_date")); //rs -> ResultSet
//print date...

What is the best way to be able to get the date?

Answer 1

Instead of: rs.getString("play_date") you should do:

rs.getDate("play_date")

since your column play_date is of DATE_TIME in your database. There is no need to do any parsing either. You can directly display the time in dd-MM-yyyy format using DateFormat#format(date)