java string date conversion

Question

I want to convert a string to date before storing it and I used

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(\"yyyy-mm-dd\");
Date returnDate = format.parse(d         


        

Answer 1

In your DateFormat use MM for month instead of mm, that is for minutes

Reference: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Answer 2

You can use like this :

Date mDate= new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());
        SimpleDateFormat mDateFormat= new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy HH:mm a");
        String dateformat=mDateFormat.format(mDate);


the string ["dd MMM yyyy HH:mm a"]  can be changed according to need of formate.

Like in your case : "yyyy-mm-dd