Java date formatting?

Question

I want to read a date in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

But if I enter date say for example 2008-1-1, I want to read it as 2008-01-01.

Can anybody help me? Thanks

Answer 1

import java.text.*;

public class Test
{

    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        try
        {
                SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-DD");  
            System.out.println(sdf.parse(args[0]).toString());
        }
                catch(Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

This works OK, no matter if you write as argument "2008-1-1" or "2008-01-01".