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Asked: 2026-05-27T00:37:02+00:00

I need to remove time from a Date Object. Here is my try, Code:

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I need to remove time from a Date Object. Here is my try,

Code:

System.out.println("date " + dbDate);
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
System.out.println("formatter.format(dbDate) " + formatter.format(dbDate));
System.out.println("final " + formatter.parse(formatter.format(dbDate)));

Output:

date 2011-12-03 23:59:59.0
formatter.format(dbDate) 2011-12-03
final Sat Dec 03 00:00:00 IST 2011

I want to the final date to display in 2011-12-03. But after conversion toString() of that Date is in different format. I am missing something. Please help.

Update:

In my application, I have two different methods to get dbDate. EXPIRY_DATE column is type of DATE.

First query uses dbDate = (java.util.Date) rs.getDate("EXPIRY_DATE");.

For this dbDate, System.out.println("date " + dbDate); gives date 2011-12-03

Second query uses dbDate = rs.getTimestamp("EXPIRY_DATE");

For this dbDate, System.out.println("date " + dbDate); gives date 2011-12-03 23:59:59.0.

This is my problem. As I thought toString() was giving problem, I didn’t mention the full problem.

Solution:

I did not have choices to avoid java.sql.Date as my application methods have multiple usages.
I tried the below and worked,

dbDate = new java.sql.Date(dbDate.getTime());
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  1. Editorial Team

    I need to remove time from a Date Object

    You can’t. The java.util.Date object contains both the date and time. Its toString() is also in a fixed format. If you want to represent it without time to humans, then you need to convert it to a String like as you already did. Or, if you intend to store it in the DB without the time (as the db part in the variable name dbDate suggests), then you need to convert it to java.sql.Date.

    preparedStatement.setDate(1, new java.sql.Date(dbDate.getTime()));
// ...

    Update as per your update, the ResultSet#getDate() returns an instance of java.sql.Date, not java.util.Date (but it is a subclass of java.util.Date, that’s why the unnecessary cast worked; please note that casting is not the same as converting, a real conversion would be new java.util.Date(dbDate.getTime())). As you can read in the javadoc of the toString() method of java.sql.Date, it’s indeed in yyyy-MM-dd format.

    So, your concrete problem is that you’re confusing java.sql.Date with java.util.Date and that you’re misgrasping the internal workings of java.util.Date and been mislead by the toString() method. Everything is working as intented.

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