Question

The code is as mentioned below:

public static void main(String[] args){
    Date date = new Date();
    DateFormat dateFormat= new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyy");

    try{
        Date formattedDate = dateFormat.parse(date.toString());
        System.out.println(formattedDate.toString());
    }catch(ParseException parseEx){
        parseEx.printStackTrace();
    }
}

In code above, dateFormat.parse(date.toString()) is throwing unparseable date exception: Unparseable date: "Mon Jan 28 18:53:24 IST 2013

I am not able to figure out the reason for it.

Answer 1

Why would you want to convert a date to a string and parse it back to a date?

The reason your code fails is because you are trying to convert a full date with a formatter which only accepts dates in the dd-MMM-yyy-format.