Question

I have this code to convert a string to a date. but the resulting date is always in another format.

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm");
        try {
            String dateString  = "18/01/2013 11:59";
            dateTest = format.parse(dateString);
            System.out.println(dateTest); //output: Tue Jan 18 11:59:00 GMT 2013
           }

How can I make it so that dateTest is in the same format as the original?

Answer 1

This

System.out.println(format.format(dateTest));

will do the job. You can use the format() method of your SimpleDateFormat to format the output the same way your input should be.