Get day, month and year separately using SimpleDateFormat

Question

I have a SimleDateFormat like this

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(\"MMM dd,yyyy  hh:mm\");
String date = format.format(Date.parse(p         


        

Answer 1

public static String getDate(long milliSeconds, String dateFormat) {
        // Create a DateFormatter object for displaying date in specified
        // format.
        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat,
                Locale.getDefault());

        // Create a calendar object that will convert the date and time value in
        // milliseconds to date.
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        calendar.setTimeInMillis(milliSeconds);
        return formatter.format(calendar.getTime());
    }

Answer 2

Use this to parse "Jan,23,2014"

SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM','dd','yyyy"); 
Date dt = fmt.parse("Jan,23,2014");

then you can get whatever part of the date.