The question is not a duplicate, do not confuse it. It addresses mainly how you cannot store the variable of type String in Date, but you can format it after casting it. The other answer marked as "duplicate" is vage and not related...
I'm trying to convert a String X = ""01021990"; to a data type Date, but everytime I store it, it gives me an error that cannot be cast
This is what works:
String date = "01062014";
DateFormat dateInput = new SimpleDateFormat("MMddyyyy");
DateFormat desireDate = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
System.out.println(desireDate.format((Date)dateInput.parse(date)));
This is what I'm trying to do that doesn't work:
DateFormat inputDate = new SimpleDateFormat("MMddyyyy");
DateFormat desireDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Date xs = desireDateFormat.format((Date)inputDate.parse(date));
However if I just print it, it does works:
System.out.println(desireDateFormat.format((Date)inputDate.parse(date)));
But I'm trying to store it into the data type Date so I can pass it to a constructor.
Thank you
desireDateFormat.format((Date)inputDate.parse(date))
returns String. Of course, you can println that but cannot cast String to Date This would work: Date xs = inputDate.parse(date);
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I have a string "1427241600000" and I want it converted to "yyyy-MM-dd" format.
I have tried, but I am not able to parse it, please review the below code
try {
String str = "1427241600000";
SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date date =sf.parse(str);
System.out.println(date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
I would like to know where I went wrong.
You should try it the other way around. First get the Date out of the milliTime and then format it.
String str = "1427241600000";
SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date date = new Date(Long.parseLong(str));
System.out.println(sf.format(date));
the conversion is highly dependent on what format the timestamp is in. But i assume the whole thing should actually be a long and is simply the systemtime from when the timestamp was created. So this should work:
String str = ...;
Date date = new Date(Long.parseLong(str));
Use Date date =new Date(Long.parseLong(str)); to convert your String to Date object.
if you are using SimpleDateFormat() the format specified as a parameter to this function should match the format of the date in the String (str in your case). In your case yyyy-MM-dd does not match the format of the time stamp (1427241600000).
You can do it like this:
use a SimpleDateFormat with an appropriate format string (be careful to use the correct format letters, uppercase and lowercase have different meanings!).
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MMddyyHHmmss");
Date date = format.parse("022310141505");
I am working on android app with achartengine where I am making a TimeSeries linegraph. I have stored all my variables inside an Arraylist. Since I need correct date object to insert in the time axis of my chart I am using,
int count = list.size();
Date[] dt = new Date[count];
for(int i=0;i<count;i++){
long a = Long.parseLong(list.get(i).get("time"));
dt[i] = new Date(a);
}
Here long a has the timestamp . With above piece of code. I am able to get dt as 09-Apr-2014 but I need the date to be shown as 09-Apr 12:55 . How can I do that,
I tried using the folllowing
SimpleDateFormat sdfDate = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd HH:mm");
Date now = new Date();
String strDate = sdfDate.format(now);
But Since strDate is a string I cannot use it as dt[i] = strDate which will throws an error as one is Date and another is String.
How can I solve this ?
Thanks
You can solve it this way:
dt[i] = sdfDate.parse(strDate);
If you really just need the date strings, you can do this:
int count = list.size();
String[] dt = new String[count];
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
long a = Long.parseLong(list.get(i).get("time"));
Date d = new Date(a);
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd HH:mm");
dt[i] = dateFormat.format(d);
}
Or, if you actually need the Date array, just format the dates on the fly as you need them.
Your question is misguided - you are showing how you create Date objects in the code, yet what you want to fix is how you show them.
The Date array will have dates precisely to the millisecond. The default toString() method of the Date objects shows only the day, that's why you're not seeing the time.
It is inherently the UIs responsibility to decide on the format of time that it is going to print, hence you should pass the Date array to the UI (or up to the point of printing) and format them there.
The DateFormat can do both (date to string representation and back):
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat( "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss" );
Date to String:
Date date = new Date();
String sDate = formatter.format( time );
String to Date:
Date date = formatter.parse(sDate );
When you store the date, you should store it as precise as possible (milliseconds). For displaying it as a string, you can use whatever format you want.
Having some troubles and can't find a quick answer..
Im trying to store a date within a string, and later fetch it to convert it back to a date.
However when storing the date using:
string tmp = new Date().toString();
And then trying to convert it back using
Date date = new Date(tmp);
I get the Exception type
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
with my Android 2.2 device. Does work with 2.2 & 2.3 emus tho.
Any tips on what other way i can store and convert back?
You could use SimpleDateFormat with its methods parse() and format().
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS");
String tmp = sdf.format(new Date());
Date date = sdf.parse(tmp);
Do you need it to be a string? long is easier :)
do
long time = new Date().getTime();
Date date = new Date(time);
then you dont' have to parse
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
// to string
String dateStr = formatter.format(new Date());
// to date
Date date = formatter.parse(dateStr);
use SimpleDateFormat as shown below.
SimpleDateFormat formatter= new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
//this will convert date into string.
String temp = formatter.format(currentDate.getTime());
//this will convert string into date format.
Date date=(Date)formatter.parse(temp);
HI,
I am converting String to Date format. But it returns wrong dates. for example,
String startDate = "08-05-2010"; // (MM/dd/yyyy)
I want to convert this to "Date" object like this, 05-JUL-10
How to do that? I tried like this
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy");
scal1.setTime(dateFormat.parse((startDate)));
but i am getting "Unparseable date:" .
If you want to convert a date string of one format to another format, you can use format() and parse() methods of SimpleDateFormat class
First you need to parse the string to a date object using parse() method setting the source pattern and then format the date object using format() method setting the target pattern:
SimpleDateFormat sourceFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
Date sourceFormatDate = sourceFormat.parse("08-05-2010");
SimpleDateFormat destFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy");
String destFormatDateString = destFormat.format(sourceFormatDate);
System.out.println(destFormatDateString); // 05-Aug-10
Unless you've left something out, it looks like you're trying to parse it with the wrong format, i.e. you have an mm-dd-yyyy, and you're trying to parse it with the format dd-MMM-yy. Try a separate date format for what you're parsing from what you're encoding.
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(“yyyy-MM-dd”);
String strDate = “2007-12-25″;
Date date = null;
try {
date = format.parse(strDate);
} catch (ParseException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
The format dd-MMM-yy you use to parse the string is wrong; the format should be dd-MM-yyyy.
String startDate = "08-05-2010";
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
Date date = dateFormat.parse((startDate));
Note that Date objects themselves do not have a format: a Date objects just represents a date and time value, just like an int is just a number, and doesn't have any inherent formatting information. If you want to display the Date in a certain format, you'll have to use a DateFormat object again to format it:
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy");
System.out.println(dateFormat.format(date));
// output: 08-May-10
I need to convert the date from request parameter to string in dateformat 'yyyy-MM-dd'.
I have tried the following
String MyDate = request.getParameter("DayCal");
formatdate = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
Date date = (Date) formatdate.parse(MyDate);
String DisplayDate= formatdate.format(date);
But i am getting incorrect results
if the request.getParameter("DayCal") = 01/01/2010; the DisplayDate = 0006/07/03
Please help...
Thanks in advance
You will need two SimpleDateFormats - one for parsing and one for formatting:
String MyDate = request.getParameter("DayCal");
SimpleDataFormat parseDate = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
SimpleDataFormat formatDdate = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date date = (Date) parseDate.parse(MyDate);
String DisplayDate= formatDate.format(date);
(I added dashes instead of slashes, because that was your initial requirement).
From your code, request.getParameter() returns date as dd/MM/YYYY or mm/dd/yyyy, but your SimpleDateFormat() is given yyyy/MM/dd parameters which doesnot match MyDate.
Instead SimpleDateFormat() should be given dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy.