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How can i get the date formate "11, jul,Tue " in java?

i want to select the date format from calendar which display date as "11 Jul,Tue " in java. How can i get convert date into this format.

You use the SimpleDateFormat class to get what you want. You can use a format of "dd, MMM, EEE" The dd gives you the day as a number; the MMM the month; and the EEE the day as text. Here is the Ocacle documentation for SimpleDateFormat
So it would work as follows
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd, MMM, EEE");
System.out.println(sdf.format( new Date()) );
That would print out the current date as 11, Jul, Tue You can get your Date object from the Calender using getTime() So:
Calender yourCalenderObject;
Date date = yourCalenderObject.getTime();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd, MMM, EEE");
System.out.println( sdf.format(date) );

You can format date into string that way.
String pattern = "dd, MMM, EEE";
System.out.println(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(pattern).format(LocalDateTime.now())); // java 8
System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat(pattern).format(new Date())); // java 7 and lower

How set the time to zero in given format yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss(Java)

I am given an input date string for ex:2015-06-02 12:60:30 and the output should be 2015-06-02 00:00:00 i.e how to set the HH:mm:ss to zero in the given format yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss ?

use yyyy-MM-dd 00:00:00 format instead of yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss
it will change the hours, minutes and seconds to zero instead of actual values
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd 00:00:00");
String dateValue = dateFormat.format(new Date());
System.out.println(dateValue);

You can try to use this:
calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
Something like this:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.set(Calendar.HOUR, 0);
c.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
c.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
System.out.println(sdf.format(c.getTime()));
c.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
System.out.println(sdf.format(c.getTime()));

Simply provide a format for the portion of the "date" you want to keep, for example...
String text = "2015-06-02 12:60:30";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date date = sdf.parse(text);
SimpleDateFormat out = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
System.out.println(out.format(date));
Outputs...
2015-06-02 00:00:00
This is a little trick, which is actually described in the JavaDocs
Parses text from the beginning of the given string to produce a date. The method may not use the entire text of the given string.
Emphasis added by me

try this
SimpleDateFormat sm = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String strDate = sm.format(myDate);

If you don't require validation of the input format, you could use a regular expression:
input.replaceAll("\d\d:\d\d:\d\d", "00:00:00")
However, note that this conversion is not necessarily one which yields a valid time: midnight might not be valid, depending upon the date you are converting and its time zone, so this might not yield a valid time. (The start of daylight savings time in Asia/Gaza is the oft-cited example).

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.YEAR,2015);
cal.set(Calendar.MONTH,6);
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,2);
cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE,0);
cal.set(Calendar.SECOND,0);
cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND,0);
Date d = cal.getTime();
And to format it you can use:
SimpleDateFormat sdFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String formatted = sdFormat.format(cal.getTime());

Get the time of other TimeZone by date string, the result is wrong

I only have a date string, and I want to see the time in other TimeZone by it. So I did it like that:
String dateStr = "2014-05-15 16:14:58 PM";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss a");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Denver"));
Date date = sdf.parse(dateStr);
System.out.println(date);
SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss a");
System.out.println(sdf1.format(date));
This is the current TimeZone in my computer:
The result that the code ran was that:
Fri May 16 06:14:58 CST 2014
2014-05-16 06:14:58 AM
The result is wrong, I had the right result by changing the TimeZone to "America/Denver" in my computer, and I saw that:
America/Denver —— 2014-05-15 02:14:58 AM
I don't know why it likes that?
But if I had a Date not a date String, I do that :
public static String getFormatedDateString(String _timeZone) {
TimeZone timeZone = null;
if (StringUtils.isEmpty(_timeZone)) {
timeZone = TimeZone.getDefault();
} else {
timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone(_timeZone);
}
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss a");
sdf.setTimeZone(timeZone);
// TimeZone.setDefault(timeZone);
return sdf.format(new Date());
}
System.out.println("America/Denver —— " + getFormatedDateString("America/Denver"));
The result likes that:
------Asia/Shanghai------
2014-05-15 16:32:04 PM (current date)
America/Denver —— 2014-05-15 02:32:04 AM
This result is right.
So I was confused, I could't find the problem when I just have a date string and I want to know the time of other TimeZone. Could any body help me?

Date object in Java is independent of the concept of timezone.
What you want to do get the equivalent time in another timezone of a date string which is 'supposed' to be in your own timezone.
However, 2nd point appears backwards in your code:
String dateStr = "2014-05-15 16:14:58 PM";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss a");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Denver"));
Date date = sdf.parse(dateStr);
What these 4 lines do is consider the date string as a point in time in "America/Denver" timezone.
When you parse it to the date object, it would give you the equivalent time in your own timezone.
You want it the other way round:
Hence staying close to your code (you can just use a single SimpleDateFormat instance effectively, which you can figure out later),
Drop the setTimezone on the first sdf:
String dateStr = "2014-05-15 16:14:58 PM";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss a");
//sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Denver"));
Date date = sdf.parse(dateStr);
System.out.println(date);
Add the same setTimezone to the other sdf:
SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss a");
sdf1.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Denver"));
System.out.println(sdf1.format(date));
Now, you are parsing your date String to a date in your current (JVM's) timezone. Then format the same date to a different timezone's String.
Output I get with the changed code (my JVM's timezone being IST):
Thu May 15 16:14:58 IST 2014 // Parsed the date string in IST
2014-05-15 04:44:58 AM // Equivalent time in Denver

Java datetime format convert

date here my problem:
String datetime = "2012-03-24 23:20:51";
I know that that string is in UTC timezone.
I need to convert this string to format "yyy-mm-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ".
To do this I'm using following code:
SimpleDateFormat inFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
inFormatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
Date inDate = inFormatter.parse(datetime);
SimpleDateFormat outFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");
outFormatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
String output = outFormatter.format(inDate);
The problem is that this code is running on a server with timezone UTC+1 and the result it gave me is this:
output = "2012-03-24T21:20:51+0000"
It removes 2 hours from the initial time and puts the UTC timestamp (0000).
Can you please help me solving this?
Thank you.

If the output format is UTC+1 then you should use that in the outformatter instead of UTC.
outFormatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC+01:00"));
Also, if you don't want the +0000 at the end then remove the Z
SimpleDateFormat outFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");

Parse a date with the timezone "Etc/GMT"

My first attempt was:
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss z");
Date date = formatter.parse(string);
It throws ParseException, so I found this hack:
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss z");
TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("Etc/GMT");
formatter.setTimeZone(timeZone);
Date date = formatter.parse(string);
It did not work either, and now I'm stuck. It parses without problems if I just change the timezone to "GMT".
edit: An example string to parse would be "2011-11-29 10:40:24 Etc/GMT"
edit2: I would prefer not to remove timezone information completely. I am coding a server that receives the date from an external user, so perhaps other dates will have other timezones.
To be more precise: This specific date I receive is from the receipt from the apple server after making an in app purchase on an iphone app, but I could also receive dates from other sources.

Don't know if this question is still relevant to you, but if you use Joda time, this'll work:
DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss ZZZ").parseDateTime(s)
Without Joda time the following will work (bit more work though):
String s = "2011-11-29 10:40:24 Etc/GMT";
// split the input in a date and a timezone part
int lastSpaceIndex = s.lastIndexOf(' ');
String dateString = s.substring(0, lastSpaceIndex);
String timeZoneString = s.substring(lastSpaceIndex + 1);
// convert the timezone to an actual TimeZone object
// and feed that to the formatter
TimeZone zone = TimeZone.getTimeZone(timeZoneString);
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
formatter.setTimeZone(zone);
// parse the timezoneless part
Date date = formatter.parse(dateString);

It didn't work for me either the thing is I tried setting TimeZone of SimpleDateFormatter to "Etc/GMT" and then formatted a new date here is the output:
2011-11-30 10:46:32 GMT+00:00
So Etc/GMT is being translated as GMT+00:00
If you really want to stick to parse "2011-09-02 10:26:35 Etc/GMT" then following will help too without even considering explicit Timezone change:
java.text.SimpleDateFormat isoFormat = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss 'Etc/GMT'");
isoFormat.parse("2010-05-23 09:01:02 Etc/GMT");
Works fine.

Following code is working for me
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Etc/GMT"));
try { System.out.println( sdf.parse("2011-09-02 10:26:35 Etc/GMT") );
} catch (ParseException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}