Convert date object to a String

Question

I want to convert a java.util.Date object to a String in Java.

The format is 

2010-05-30 22:15:52

What is the easiest way to do that?

Answer 1

Follow these steps:

// Create an object of SimpleDateFormat
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
// Get the date today using Calendar object
Date today = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();        
// Using DateFormat format method we can create a string 
String reportDate = df.format(today);
// Print today's date 
System.out.println("Report Date: " + reportDate);

Answer 2

SimpleDateFormat() is used to convert String into Date.

String string = "January 2, 2010";
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
Date date = format.parse(string);
System.out.println(date); // Sat Jan 02 00:00:00 GMT 2010

Answer 3

We parse the full date to time format:

date="2016-05-06 16:40:32";

public static String setDateParsing(String date) throws ParseException {

    // This is the format date we want
    DateFormat mSDF = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm a");

    // This format date is actually present
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm");
    return mSDF.format(formatter.parse(date));
}