Question

I have an android app in which i want to convert my string into date data type.
I get the string via date picker in this format (“12/30/2011”).
I want to convert it into string in the same format. This is my code:

        Date dateObj = new Date();
        dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
        dateFormat.setLenient(false);
        dateObj = dateFormat.parse("12/30/2011");
        Log.v("",""+dateObj);

But i get value in this form:

Wed Dec 28 00:00:00 GMT+05:00 2011

Answer 1

Does it help?

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
sdf.format(new Date())

Please have a look at this

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;


public class DateIssue {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
        System.out.println(sdf.format(new Date()));
    }
}

Output: 12/28/2011

In place of

Log.v("",""+dateObj);

use this

 Log.v("",""+sdf.format(new Date()));

You shouldn’t print the original date object but the formatted one.