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 need to give a date as the argument for format not a String. First create a SimpleDateFormat to parse the string to a date then give the date object to the other SimpleDateFormat to format the date.