I want to get a formatted Date in Java

Question

I want to get a new Date object with a SimpleDateFormat applied to it. I would like to do something like:

SimpleDateFormat myFormat =         


        

Answer 1

I think you're misunderstanding something here about what the Date object is. Date simply holds the information about a point in time - it doesn't have a format at all. When it comes to the String representation of a Date, this is where formatting comes into play. Only worry about the formatting when you are:

1. Parsing a String representation into a Date object.
2. Converting a Date back into String representation to display it in a certain way.