Question

String myDate = new String("2011-06-23T00:00:00");
        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
        try {
            this.thedate = format.parse(myDate);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

I’m not sure what I’m doing, but I have a timestamp that will be a string and I want to parse out the year and month. This is what I have so far.

Answer 1

You need to use “yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss” as a pattern for the SimpleDateFormat:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");