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Asked: 2026-05-29T14:44:35+00:00

I have a string 12/9/2010 4:39:38 PM which i have to convert to a

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I have a string "12/9/2010 4:39:38 PM" which i have to convert to a date object. I am using the following code to do it:

String str = "12/9/2010 4:39:38 PM";

DateFormat formatter ;

Date date ;

formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("M/dd/yyyy H:m:s a");

date =(Date)formatter.parse(str);             

System.out.println("date printed"+date);

However, when im printing the output, i see

Thu Dec 09 04:39:38 IST 2010

How do I get the date exactly the way I declared in the string i.e

12/9/2010 4:39:38 PM

as output? Pls help

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’re assuming that the Date value itself remembers the format – it doesn’t. Date.toString will do what it wants – because the Date only represents an instant in time.

    If you want to format a Date, use your formatter again:

    System.out.println(formatter.format(date));

    However, that won’t necessarily return the exact same value that was in your string, as there may be multiple values which parse the same way. For example, as you’ve only used “H:m:s”, I’d expect “4:5:6” to be parsed the same way as “04:05:06”.

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