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

Intro

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

Examples

package com.freesamplecode.java.datetime;

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

public class ConvertStringToDateDemo {
 public static void main(String[] args){
  String dateString1 = "8-Jan-2016";
  String dateString2 = "08/01/2016";
  String dateString3 = "Jan 8, 2016";
  
  SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
  SimpleDateFormat sdf2 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
  SimpleDateFormat sdf3 = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy");
  
  try {
   Date date1 = sdf1.parse(dateString1);
   System.out.println(date1);
   
   Date date2 = sdf2.parse(dateString2);
   System.out.println(date2);
   
   Date date3 = sdf3.parse(dateString3);
   System.out.println(date3);
   
   
  } catch (ParseException e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
  }
  
 }
}

Output

Fri Jan 08 00:00:00 ICT 2016
Fri Jan 08 00:00:00 ICT 2016
Fri Jan 08 00:00:00 ICT 2016

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