Formatting date in java

Question

I am trying to format date string ex. 2014-11-24T18:30:00.000Z to 2014-11-24 using this code below:

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new          


        

Answer 1

Use dateFormat.parse() instead of dateFormat.format(), since you want to parse your String into Date object. Then, when you have the Date object, format it to String with wanted format. @Jens already gave you the full code, so no need to copy it again here.