Question

I have field in class Test:

private Date date;

Code in main:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy");
Date now = new Date();
Test test = new Test();
test.setDate(sdf.parse(now.toString()));

But I have error:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Tue Jan 08 14:10:23 GMT 2013"
    at java.text.DateFormat.parse(Unknown Source)

How Can I parse today date to sava

Answer 1

now.toString() is not a good way to represent a date as a string, because it uses a ‘default’ format. To represent a date to a string, you can use the format(Date date) method of SimpleDateFormat:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy");
Date now = new Date();

String dateAsString = sdf.format(date); //"08.01.2013"
Date dateFromString = sdf.parse(dateAsString);