convert String to date in java with example

In this tutorial, we will learn to convert String to date in java with example.While we working with java this is one of the most scenario

We can easily convert String to Data using SimpleDateFormat.java. But before that we should know the date patterns which mentioned below 

Letter	Component	Presentation	Examples
y	Year	Year	1996; 96
M	Month in year	Month	July; Jul; 07
d	Day in month	Number	10
a	Am/pm marker	Text	PM
H	Hour in day (0-23)	Number	0
k	Hour in day (1-24)	Number	24
K	Hour in am/pm (0-11)	Number	0
h	Hour in am/pm (1-12)	Number	12
m	Minute in hour	Number	30
s	Second in minute	Number	55
S	Millisecond	Number	978

In this example we will convert 20/02/2020 to Date class 

Syntax

DateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/YYYY");
 simpleDateFormat.parse(dateString);

Example

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class SimpleDateFormatExample {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {
			String dateString = "20/02/2020";
			DateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/YYYY");
			// Below line will convert from string to date
			Date parse = simpleDateFormat.parse(dateString);
			// The output will be like Sun Dec 29 00:00:00 IST 2019
			System.out.println(" Output :: "+parse);
		} catch (ParseException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

	}

}

Output

 Output :: Sun Dec 29 00:00:00 IST 2019

Reference

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Download

https://github.com/rkumar9090/BeginnersBug/blob/master/BegineersBug/src/com/geeks/example/SimpleDateFormatExample.java

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