How to convert String to Date in java using Joda Time ?
The below program converts the String-to-Date and Date-to-String using joda time library. Joda Time library is a 3rd party jar and its very easy and compact to use for such conversion. Download the joda jar from https://github.com/JodaOrg/joda-time/releases
Example :-
package jdevelopersguide.lab;
import java.util.Date;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;
public class ConvertToDate {
/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
String date="2015-04-07";
DateTime jodaTimeDate=DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-mm-dd").parseDateTime(date);
System.out.println("Joda Time Date is::"+jodaTimeDate);
//Convert Joda DateTime to Java Date
Date javaDate=jodaTimeDate.toDate();
System.out.println("Converted Java Date is:::"+javaDate);
//Convert Java Date to String
String convertedDate=DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-mm-yyyy").print(javaDate.getTime());
System.out.println("Converted Java Date to String::::"+convertedDate);
}
}
Output :-
Joda Time Date is::2015-01-07T00:04:00.000+11:00
Converted Java Date is:::Wed Jan 07 00:04:00 EST 2015
Converted Java Date to String::::07-04-2015
The Pattern is really very simple and you can use as per your requirements. There are many pattens are there as follows :-
The pattern syntax is mostly compatible with java.text.SimpleDateFormat - time zone names cannot be parsed and a few more symbols are supported. All ASCII letters are reserved as pattern letters, which are defined as follows:
Symbol Meaning Presentation Examples
------ ------- ------------ -------
G era text AD
C century of era (>=0) number 20
Y year of era (>=0) year 1996
x weekyear year 1996
w week of weekyear number 27
e day of week number 2
E day of week text Tuesday; Tue
y year year 1996
D day of year number 189
M month of year month July; Jul; 07
d day of month number 10
a halfday of day text PM
K hour of halfday (0~11) number 0
h clockhour of halfday (1~12) number 12
H hour of day (0~23) number 0
k clockhour of day (1~24) number 24
m minute of hour number 30
s second of minute number 55
S fraction of second number 978
z time zone text Pacific Standard Time; PST
Z time zone offset/id zone -0800; -08:00; America/Los_Angeles
' escape for text delimiter
'' single quote literal '
You can find more details in joda site.
