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

You have to parse the string first as a date and then format the date:

SimpleDateFormat dateFormatP = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ"); 
Date parsedDate = dateFormatP.parse(reqJsonObj.getString(FROM_DATE));
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); 
dateFormat.format(parsedDate );