Question

I have a date in the format:Thu- Mar 22 2012.Its is obtained in a string variable date1.I need to convert the date in string variable to date format.I tried the below ccode but failed to parse the date;Please help.

DateFormat formatter;
Date formatted_date= null;


formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE-MM d yyyy");
try {
        formatted_date= (Date) formatter.parse(date1);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 1

Thu- Mar 22 2012
EEE- MMM dd yyyy

I think you need something like this

UPD: for date formatting:

SimpleDateFormat toStringFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd yyyy");
String formattedDate = toStringFormatter.format(date);

so parse() is for String -> Date, and format() is for Date -> String