Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Java Date & Time Examples : How To Convert Date To String

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Intro

This examples will demonstrates how to convert a date object into string format. It is very quite simple, you can use SimpleDateFormat.format() method to format a date object into specify format.

Examples

package com.freesamplecode.java.datetime;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

public class ConvertDateToStringDemo {
 public static void main(String[] args){
  
  //get today
  Date today = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
  
  //create a simple date format object to specify string format
  SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy hh.mm.ss");
  
  //display today in string format
  System.out.println("Today is : "+sdf.format(today));
 }
}