Get day, month and year separately using SimpleDateFormat

Question

I have a SimleDateFormat like this

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(\"MMM dd,yyyy  hh:mm\");
String date = format.format(Date.parse(p         


        

Answer 1

Wow, SimpleDateFormat for getting string parts? It can be solved much easier if your input string is like "Jan,23,2014":

String input = "Jan,23,2014";
String[] out = input.split(",");
System.out.println("Year = " + out[2]);
System.out.println("Month = " + out[0]);
System.out.println("Day = " + out[1]);

Output:

Year = 2014
Month = Jan
Day = 23

But if you really want to use SimpleDateFormat because of some reason, the solution will be the following:

String input = "Jan,23,2014";
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM,dd,yyyy");
Date date = format.parse(input);
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getDefault());
calendar.setTime(date);
System.out.println(calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR));
System.out.println(calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("MMM").format(calendar.getTime()));

Output:

2014
23
Jan