Question

I need to convert a timestamp string to java.util.Date. E.g.:

MMDDYYHHMMSS to MM-DD-YY HH-MM-SS

Where MM is month, DD is date, YY is year, HH is hours, MM is minutes and SS is seconds.

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MMddyyHHmmss");
Date date = format.parse("022310141505");

but I would strongly recommend that you use Joda Time instead. It’s a better date/time library by a long, long way. In particular, the formatters/parsers in Joda Time are thread-safe, so you can reuse them freely and statically; java.text.SimpleDateFormat isn’t thread-safe, so you either need to create one per thread or serialize access to it with a synchronized block.