Question

I used SimpleDateFormat:

SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm:ss");
value.adStartDate = df.parse("2011/11/11 11:11:11");

I was hoping the date would come out like the string I provided, but instead I am getting this:

Fri Nov 11 2011 11:11:11 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

This is showing on a form that I created using Javascript…

Is there a way to “force” the output on the form to be like the string?

Basically I want to pass a date with format “yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm:ss” to a form that was generated using Javascript and have the form display it in that same format.

Answer 1

One thing is parsing and another thing is formatting.

Check this example in order to display the formatted string.

@Test
    public void testDateFormat() throws ParseException {
        SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm:ss");
        Date myDate = df.parse("2011/11/11 11:11:11");
        System.out.println(df.format(myDate));
    }

Output:

2011/11/11 11:11:11