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I have a date in the following format
//input date
Thu Jun 06 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
//output date format
I want to change this to "dd-mm-yyyy, hh:mm:ss".
I get the input date format from db. I have to change that into output date format which i will be showing it in a grid.
I tried the following code.
DateFormat outputDate = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-mm-yyyy, hh:mm:ss");
try
{
Date date = outputDate.parse(facade.getDate.toString()); **//getting exception here**
outputDate = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-mm-yyyy, hh:mm:ss");
Date date1 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-mm-yyyy, hh:mm:ss").parse(outputDate
.format(date));
facade.setDate(date1);
}catch (ParseException e)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
I am getting
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2013-06-06 00:00:00.0".
Any help..
"2013-06-06 00:00:00.0" does not match "dd-mm-yyyy, hh:mm:ss" your format should be "dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss" instead
But, looking at your code I'm guessing facade.getDate is actually a java.sql.Timestamp which inherits from java.util.Date so you can directly pass it to the format like so
new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy, hh:mm:ss").format(facade.getDate)
Here's some code which works for me:
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String input = "Thu Jun 06 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)";
DateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("E MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss 'GMT'z",
Locale.ENGLISH);
Date date = inputFormat.parse(input);
DateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss",
Locale.ENGLISH);
outputFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
String output = outputFormat.format(date);
System.out.println(output);
}
}
Things to consider:
You need to work out your output time zone. Currently I've got it set to UTC, but that may not be what you want.
You really need to take a step back and think things through. You've clearly got two different formats - you're trying to convert from one to the other. So creating three different SimpleDateFormat objects all with the same format is never going to work.
You need to read documentation carefully... in SimpleDateFormat, M means month and m means minute; h uses the 12-hour clock and H uses the 24-hour clock.
This is assuming you actually need to start with a string though. If getDate is already a Date or a Timestamp, you can ignore the first part - just use the output part of the above code. You should avoid unnecessary string conversions wherever possible.
Note that dd-MM-yyyy is a slightly unusual format - are you sure you don't actually want yyyy-MM-dd which is more common (and sortable)?
DateFormat outputDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-dd-mm hh:mm:ss");
try {
Date date = outputDate.parse("2013-06-06 00:00:00.0");
System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("dd-mm-yyyy, hh:mm:ss").format(date));
} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
works well, line 1 was incorrect. Your SimpleDateFormat.parse needs to be in the exact format of the input date. Then you want to output it in a different format so you make another one and set the format then call SimpleDateFormat.format(date) and I put a println on it.
Fault is here
DateFormat outputDate = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-mm-yyyy, hh:mm:ss");
pattern should be equals to Thu Jun 06 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time). not to your out put strings pattern.
#Test
public void test() throws ParseException {
SimpleDateFormat sdf_org = new SimpleDateFormat("E MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss 'GMT'Z", Locale.ENGLISH);
Date d = sdf_org.parse("Thu Jun 06 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0530");
SimpleDateFormat sdf_target = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
System.out.println(sdf_target.format(d));
}
output console : 2013-30-06 03:30:00.000
Related
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
SimpleDateFormat dt = new SimpleDateFormat("MM dd yy");
dt.setLenient(false);
dt.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Asia/Hong_Kong"));
Date date = dt.parse("05 14 16");
System.out.println(date);
}
Output: Fri May 13 21:30:00 IST 2016
If i try to use the output it is switching to one day before instead of the correct day.
Is this expected or an issue with the API?
This is expected and there is no bug in Java.
Class Date does not contain timezone information. A java.util.Date is nothing more than wrapper for a number of milliseconds since 01-01-1970, 00:00:00 GMT. It does not remember that the string that it was parsed from contained information about a timezone.
When you display a Date, for example by (implicitly) calling toString() on it as you are doing here:
System.out.println(date);
it will be printed in the default timezone of your system, which is IST in your case.
If you want to print it in a certain timezone, then format it using a SimpleDateFormat object, setting the desired timezone on the SimpleDateFormat object. For example:
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");
df..setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Asia/Hong_Kong"));
System.out.println(df.format(date));
I'm having huge difficulties with simple date format. First of all, I know not all tutorials on all sites are actually good, but the fact that all non trivial formats (not dd/MM/yyyy) gave a parse exception (plus my own tests don't work as expected) is rather frustrating to me.
This is the site in question: http://www.mkyong.com/java/how-to-convert-string-to-date-java/
And I don't understand why something as simple as:
private static void unexpectedFailure() {
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
String dateInString = "7-Jun-2013";
try {
Date date = formatter.parse(dateInString);
System.out.println(date);
System.out.println(formatter.format(date));
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Throws a parse exception.
Also besides that, I'm trying to parse my own dates. This code gives strange results (unexpected I would say):
public static void doSomething(List<String> list) {
Iterator<String> iter = list.iterator();
String[] line = iter.next().split(" ");
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(line));
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss");
format.setLenient(true);
try {
System.out.println(line[0]+" "+line[1]);
System.out.println(format.parse(line[0]+" "+line[1]));
} catch (ParseException e) {
System.out.println("In theory this should not get caught.");
}
}
Prints out this:
[06/08/2015, 13:51:29:849, DEBUG, etc...]
06/08/2015 13:51:29:849
Thu Aug 06 13:51:29 EEST 2015
Thu Aug 06 13:51:29 EEST 2015 WHAT? WHY?
EDIT I'll try and explain. In my last code snippet I'm just trying to determine if the string is a date, and it passes "the test". However when I'm printing it out the format is simply bizzare. I'm starting to think that is because I'm printing a date. How can I even print a DateFormat? What I was expecting was dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss not ddd MMM 06? hh:mm:ss G YYYY
And I don't understand why something as simple as:
(code snipped)
Throws a parse exception.
My guess is that it's tripping up over Jun which may not be a valid month abbreviation in your system default locale. I suggest you specify the locale in your SimpleDateFormat constructor:
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy", Locale.US);
Then you're dealing with a locale which definitely has Jun as a month abbreviation.
That said, where possible I'd suggest using numeric formats where possibly, ideally ones following ISO-8601, e.g.
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss
However when I'm printing it out the format is simply bizzare.
No it's not. You're effectively using
Date date = format.parse(line[0]+" "+line[1]);
System.out.println(date);
So that's calling Date.toString(), documented as:
Converts this Date object to a String of the form:
dow mon dd hh:mm:ss zzz yyyy
So that's working as expected. However, you want to format the date using your SimpleDateFormat - so you need to call format:
System.out.println(format.format(date));
Of course that just checks that it can round-trip, basically.
As a side note, I suspect you want HH (24-hour clock) instead of hh (12-hour clock) in your format string.
I am using <sx:datetimepicker name="date1" label="From" displayFormat="yyyy-MM-dd"/> for picking the date. How ever I have to compare the picked date with date in mySQl table. The problem here is, the date in mySQl table is like 2014-09-29 20:36:25 and the format of piked date from struts2 tag is like Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 IST 2014. I am unable to compare both. Can any one tell me how to compare both? Or if I can change the format of picked time in java, how to do that?
You need to parse both Date to some same format so that you can compare that ..
see below code that can help you
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SimpleDateFormat sdfForSturtsDate = new SimpleDateFormat("E MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy");
SimpleDateFormat sdfForMySqlDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String DateFromSturts = "Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 IST 2014";
String DateFromMysql = "2014-09-29 20:36:25";
java.util.Date dateFromsturts= new java.util.Date();
java.util.Date dateFromMySql= new java.util.Date();
try {
dateFromsturts = sdfForSturtsDate.parse(DateFromSturts);
dateFromMySql = sdfForMySqlDate.parse(DateFromMysql);
} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
// now you can compare dateFromsturts and dateFromMySql
}
}
I have a date string:
Thu Feb 20 08:00:00 EET 1992
And using this code to format it:
String datePatternFrom = "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss ZZZ yyyy";
String datePatternTo = "MMM dd, yyyy";
String prettyDate = "";
try {
DateFormat fromFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat(datePatternFrom);
Date date = (Date)fromFormatter.parse(userBirthday.toString());
DateFormat toFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat(datePatternTo);
prettyDate = toFormatter.format(date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Why I'am getting the exception?
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Thu Feb 20 08:00:00 EET 1992" (at offset 0)
The problem is with the weekday and month and your locale.
Thu is English, so you have to tell the parser that it should use English weekdays:
DateFormat fromFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat(datePatternFrom, Locale.US);
This will work for your pattern.
If you do not specify a locale, the default will be used, which is not always an English one. ;-)
It could be your locale. Try making a SDF with datePatternFrom, give it a date to format and print that somewhere. See what pops up.
Probably your userBirthday object was not created as a java.util.Date object. Can you try a System.out.println(userBirthday.getClass().getName());?
I 'm getting the date in the following format (Date and not String):
Tue Jun 26 07:00:00 EDT 2012
I want to change the format of the date to (Date):
6/26/2012 10:19:15 AM
so as to update the same in the data base. I tried following code:
Date dte;
Date dte1;(Tue Jun 26 07:00:00 EDT 2012)
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("m/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a");
String formattedDate = formatter.format(dte1);
dte = formatter.parse(formattedDate);
SystemUtils.trace("test", " date>>>" + dte);
is yielding the following response:
Thu Jan 26 07:00:00 EST 2012
Can any one please share the piece of code to do the same asap.
You shouldn't have to format dates to insert them in a database. If using JDBC, use prepared statements.
To answer your question, though, m can't mean minute and month at the same time. M means month. m means minute.
This code outputs needed for you result:
Date dte = new Date();//or something else
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a");
String formattedDate = formatter.format(dte);
System.out.println(formattedDate);
Try this, this below code will suit your need.
public class DateWala {
public static void main(String[] args){
System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a").format(new Date()));
}
}
you can use this tiny function
// send your time
private String convertTime(String dateTime) {
//source format will go there
SimpleDateFormat sdfSource = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS");
Date date = null;
try {
date = sdfSource.parse(dateTime);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
//destination format will go there
SimpleDateFormat sdfDestination = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm");
return sdfDestination.format(date);
}