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How can I get a date to be put into input? Then how can I get it to make a due date based on an undetermined rental period inputed by the user? [duplicate]

I've a String representing a date.
String date_s = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
I'd like to convert it to a Date and output it in YYYY-MM-DD format.
2011-01-18
How can I achieve this?
Okay, based on the answers I retrieved below, here's something I've tried:
String date_s = " 2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
SimpleDateFormat dt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss");
Date date = dt.parse(date_s);
SimpleDateFormat dt1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyy-mm-dd");
System.out.println(dt1.format(date));
But it outputs 02011-00-1 instead of the desired 2011-01-18. What am I doing wrong?

Use LocalDateTime#parse() (or ZonedDateTime#parse() if the string happens to contain a time zone part) to parse a String in a certain pattern into a LocalDateTime.
String oldstring = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
LocalDateTime datetime = LocalDateTime.parse(oldstring, DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S"));
Then use LocalDateTime#format() (or ZonedDateTime#format()) to format a LocalDateTime into a String in a certain pattern.
String newstring = datetime.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd"));
System.out.println(newstring); // 2011-01-18
Or, when you're not on Java 8 yet, use SimpleDateFormat#parse() to parse a String in a certain pattern into a Date.
String oldstring = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S").parse(oldstring);
Then use SimpleDateFormat#format() to format a Date into a String in a certain pattern.
String newstring = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(date);
System.out.println(newstring); // 2011-01-18
See also:
Java string to date conversion
Update: as per your failed attempt which you added to the question after this answer was posted; the patterns are case sensitive. Carefully read the java.text.SimpleDateFormat javadoc what the individual parts stands for. So stands for example M for months and m for minutes. Also, years exist of four digits yyyy, not five yyyyy. Look closer at the code snippets I posted here above.

Formatting are CASE-SENSITIVE so USE MM for month not mm (this is for minute) and yyyy
For Reference you can use following cheatsheet.
G Era designator Text AD
y Year Year 1996; 96
Y Week year Year 2009; 09
M Month in year Month July; Jul; 07
w Week in year Number 27
W Week in month Number 2
D Day in year Number 189
d Day in month Number 10
F Day of week in month Number 2
E Day name in week Text Tuesday; Tue
u Day number of week (1 = Monday, ..., 7 = Sunday) Number 1
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
z Time zone General time zone Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00
Z Time zone RFC 822 time zone -0800
X Time zone ISO 8601 time zone -08; -0800; -08:00
Examples:
"yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z" 2001.07.04 AD at 12:08:56 PDT
"EEE, MMM d, ''yy" Wed, Jul 4, '01
"h:mm a" 12:08 PM
"hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz" 12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time
"K:mm a, z" 0:08 PM, PDT
"yyyyy.MMMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa" 02001.July.04 AD 12:08 PM
"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z" Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700
"yyMMddHHmmssZ" 010704120856-0700
"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'" 2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-0700
"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX" 2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-07:00
"YYYY-'W'ww-u" 2001-W27-3

The answer is of course to create a SimpleDateFormat object and use it to parse Strings to Date and to format Dates to Strings. If you've tried SimpleDateFormat and it didn't work, then please show your code and any errors you may receive.
Addendum: "mm" in the format String is not the same as "MM". Use MM for months and mm for minutes. Also, yyyyy is not the same as yyyy. e.g.,:
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class FormateDate {
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
String date_s = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
// *** note that it's "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss" not "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss"
SimpleDateFormat dt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
Date date = dt.parse(date_s);
// *** same for the format String below
SimpleDateFormat dt1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
System.out.println(dt1.format(date));
}
}

Why not simply use this
Date convertToDate(String receivedDate) throws ParseException{
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
Date date = formatter.parse(receivedDate);
return date;
}
Also, this is the other way :
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
String requiredDate = df.format(new Date()).toString();
or
Date requiredDate = df.format(new Date());

Using the java.time package in Java 8 and later:
String date = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
TemporalAccessor temporal = DateTimeFormatter
.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S")
.parse(date); // use parse(date, LocalDateTime::from) to get LocalDateTime
String output = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd").format(temporal);

[edited to include BalusC's corrections]
The SimpleDateFormat class should do the trick:
String pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S";
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
try {
Date date = format.parse("2011-01-18 00:00:00.0");
System.out.println(date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

Please refer "Date and Time Patterns" here. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.text.ParseException;
public class DateConversionExample{
public static void main(String arg[]){
try{
SimpleDateFormat sourceDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-DD HH:mm:ss");
Date date = sourceDateFormat.parse("2011-01-18 00:00:00.0");
SimpleDateFormat targetDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
System.out.println(targetDateFormat.format(date));
}catch(ParseException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

Other answers are correct, basically you had the wrong number of "y" characters in your pattern.
Time Zone
One more problem though… You did not address time zones. If you intended UTC, then you should have said so. If not, the answers are not complete. If all you want is the date portion without the time, then no issue. But if you do further work that may involve time, then you should be specifying a time zone.
Joda-Time
Here is the same kind of code but using the third-party open-source Joda-Time 2.3 library
// © 2013 Basil Bourque. This source code may be used freely forever by anyone taking full responsibility for doing so.
String date_s = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter formatter = org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat.forPattern( "yyyy-MM-dd' 'HH:mm:ss.SSS" );
// By the way, if your date-time string conformed strictly to ISO 8601 including a 'T' rather than a SPACE ' ', you could
// use a formatter built into Joda-Time rather than specify your own: ISODateTimeFormat.dateHourMinuteSecondFraction().
// Like this:
//org.joda.time.DateTime dateTimeInUTC = org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat.dateHourMinuteSecondFraction().withZoneUTC().parseDateTime( date_s );
// Assuming the date-time string was meant to be in UTC (no time zone offset).
org.joda.time.DateTime dateTimeInUTC = formatter.withZoneUTC().parseDateTime( date_s );
System.out.println( "dateTimeInUTC: " + dateTimeInUTC );
System.out.println( "dateTimeInUTC (date only): " + org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat.date().print( dateTimeInUTC ) );
System.out.println( "" ); // blank line.
// Assuming the date-time string was meant to be in Kolkata time zone (formerly known as Calcutta). Offset is +5:30 from UTC (note the half-hour).
org.joda.time.DateTimeZone kolkataTimeZone = org.joda.time.DateTimeZone.forID( "Asia/Kolkata" );
org.joda.time.DateTime dateTimeInKolkata = formatter.withZone( kolkataTimeZone ).parseDateTime( date_s );
System.out.println( "dateTimeInKolkata: " + dateTimeInKolkata );
System.out.println( "dateTimeInKolkata (date only): " + org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat.date().print( dateTimeInKolkata ) );
// This date-time in Kolkata is a different point in the time line of the Universe than the dateTimeInUTC instance created above. The date is even different.
System.out.println( "dateTimeInKolkata adjusted to UTC: " + dateTimeInKolkata.toDateTime( org.joda.time.DateTimeZone.UTC ) );
When run…
dateTimeInUTC: 2011-01-18T00:00:00.000Z
dateTimeInUTC (date only): 2011-01-18
dateTimeInKolkata: 2011-01-18T00:00:00.000+05:30
dateTimeInKolkata (date only): 2011-01-18
dateTimeInKolkata adjusted to UTC: 2011-01-17T18:30:00.000Z

try
{
String date_s = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
SimpleDateFormat simpledateformat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S");
Date tempDate=simpledateformat.parse(date_s);
SimpleDateFormat outputDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
System.out.println("Output date is = "+outputDateFormat.format(tempDate));
} catch (ParseException ex)
{
System.out.println("Parse Exception");
}

You can just use:
Date yourDate = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat DATE_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String date = DATE_FORMAT.format(yourDate);
It works perfectly!

public class SystemDateTest {
String stringDate;
public static void main(String[] args) {
SystemDateTest systemDateTest = new SystemDateTest();
// format date into String
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss");
systemDateTest.setStringDate(simpleDateFormat.format(systemDateTest.getDate()));
System.out.println(systemDateTest.getStringDate());
}
public Date getDate() {
return new Date();
}
public String getStringDate() {
return stringDate;
}
public void setStringDate(String stringDate) {
this.stringDate = stringDate;
}
}

String str = "2000-12-12";
Date dt = null;
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
try
{
dt = formatter.parse(str);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
}
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, formatter.format(dt));

You could try Java 8 new date, more information can be found on the Oracle documentation.
Or you can try the old one
public static Date getDateFromString(String format, String dateStr) {
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
Date date = null;
try {
date = (Date) formatter.parse(dateStr);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return date;
}
public static String getDate(Date date, String dateFormat) {
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat);
return formatter.format(date);
}

You can also use substring()
String date_s = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
date_s.substring(0,10);
If you want a space in front of the date, use
String date_s = " 2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
date_s.substring(1,11);

private SimpleDateFormat dataFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
#Override
public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {
if(value instanceof Date) {
value = dataFormat.format(value);
}
return super.getTableCellRendererComponent(table, value, isSelected, hasFocus, row, column);
};

remove one y form the format provide to:
SimpleDateFormat dt1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyy-mm-dd");
It should be:
SimpleDateFormat dt1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");

We can convert Today's date in the format of 'JUN 12, 2020'.
String.valueOf(DateFormat.getDateInstance().format(new Date())));

/**
* Method will take Date in "MMMM, dd yyyy HH:mm:s" format and return time difference like added: 3 min ago
*
* #param date : date in "MMMM, dd yyyy HH:mm:s" format
* #return : time difference
*/
private String getDurationTimeStamp(String date) {
String timeDifference = "";
//date formatter as per the coder need
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM, dd yyyy HH:mm:s");
TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("EST");
sdf.setTimeZone(timeZone);
Date startDate = null;
try {
startDate = sdf.parse(date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
MyLog.printStack(e);
}
//end date will be the current system time to calculate the lapse time difference
Date endDate = new Date();
//get the time difference in milliseconds
long duration = endDate.getTime() - startDate.getTime();
long diffInSeconds = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(duration);
long diffInMinutes = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(duration);
long diffInHours = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(duration);
long diffInDays = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(duration);
if (diffInDays >= 365) {
int year = (int) (diffInDays / 365);
timeDifference = year + mContext.getString(R.string.year_ago);
} else if (diffInDays >= 30) {
int month = (int) (diffInDays / 30);
timeDifference = month + mContext.getString(R.string.month_ago);
}
//if days are not enough to create year then get the days
else if (diffInDays >= 1) {
timeDifference = diffInDays + mContext.getString(R.string.day_ago);
}
//if days value<1 then get the hours
else if (diffInHours >= 1) {
timeDifference = diffInHours + mContext.getString(R.string.hour_ago);
}
//if hours value<1 then get the minutes
else if (diffInMinutes >= 1) {
timeDifference = diffInMinutes + mContext.getString(R.string.min_ago);
}
//if minutes value<1 then get the seconds
else if (diffInSeconds >= 1) {
timeDifference = diffInSeconds + mContext.getString(R.string.sec_ago);
} else if (timeDifference.isEmpty()) {
timeDifference = mContext.getString(R.string.now);
}
return mContext.getString(R.string.added) + " " + timeDifference;
}

Say you want to change 2019-12-20 10:50 AM GMT+6:00 to 2019-12-20 10:50 AM
first of all you have to understand the date format first one date format is
yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm a zzz and second one date format will be yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm a
just return a string from this function like.
public String convertToOnlyDate(String currentDate) {
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm a ");
Date date;
String dateString = "";
try {
date = dateFormat.parse(currentDate);
System.out.println(date.toString());
dateString = dateFormat.format(date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return dateString;
}
This function will return your desire answer. If you want to customize more just add or remove component from the date format.

you have some wrong:
SimpleDateFormat dt1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyy-mm-dd");
first :
should be
new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");
//yyyy 4 not 5
this display 02011, but yyyy it disply 2011
second:
change your code like this
new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
i hope help you

java.time
In March 2014, modern date-time API* API supplanted the error-prone java.util date-time API and their formatting API, SimpleDateFormat. Since then it has been highly recommended to stop using the legacy API.
Also, quoted below is a notice from the home page of Joda-Time:
Note that from Java SE 8 onwards, users are asked to migrate to java.time (JSR-310) - a core part of the JDK which replaces this project.
You do not need DateTimeFormatter for formatting
You need DateTimeFormatter only for parsing your string but you do not need a DateTimeFormatter to get the date in the desired format. The modern Date-Time API is based on ISO 8601 and thus the toString implementation of java.time types return a string in ISO 8601 format. Your desired format is the default format of LocalDate#toString.
Solution using java.time, the modern Date-Time API:
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String strDate = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
DateTimeFormatter dtfInput = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("u-M-d H:m:s.S", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse(strDate, dtfInput);
// Alternatively,
// LocalDateTime ldt = dtfInput.parse(strDate, LocalDateTime::from);
LocalDate date = ldt.toLocalDate();
System.out.println(date);
}
}
Output:
2011-01-18
ONLINE DEMO
Some important notes about the solution:
java.time made it possible to call parse and format functions on the Date-Time type itself, in addition to the traditional way (i.e. calling parse and format functions on the formatter type, which is DateTimeFormatter in case of java.time API).
Here, you can use y instead of u but I prefer u to y.
Learn more about the modern Date-Time API from Trail: Date Time.
* For any reason, if you have to stick to Java 6 or Java 7, you can use ThreeTen-Backport which backports most of the java.time functionality to Java 6 & 7. If you are working for an Android project and your Android API level is still not compliant with Java-8, check Java 8+ APIs available through desugaring and How to use ThreeTenABP in Android Project.

SimpleDateFormat dt1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");

Comparing dates in Java: unexpected results [duplicate]

What is the best way to convert a String in the format 'January 2, 2010' to a Date in Java?
Ultimately, I want to break out the month, the day, and the year as integers so that I can use
Date date = new Date();
date.setMonth()..
date.setYear()..
date.setDay()..
date.setlong currentTime = date.getTime();
to convert the date into time.

That's the hard way, and those java.util.Date setter methods have been deprecated since Java 1.1 (1997). Moreover, the whole java.util.Date class was de-facto deprecated (discommended) since introduction of java.time API in Java 8 (2014).
Simply format the date using DateTimeFormatter with a pattern matching the input string (the tutorial is available here).
In your specific case of "January 2, 2010" as the input string:
"January" is the full text month, so use the MMMM pattern for it
"2" is the short day-of-month, so use the d pattern for it.
"2010" is the 4-digit year, so use the yyyy pattern for it.
String string = "January 2, 2010";
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MMMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(string, formatter);
System.out.println(date); // 2010-01-02
Note: if your format pattern happens to contain the time part as well, then use LocalDateTime#parse(text, formatter) instead of LocalDate#parse(text, formatter). And, if your format pattern happens to contain the time zone as well, then use ZonedDateTime#parse(text, formatter) instead.
Here's an extract of relevance from the javadoc, listing all available format patterns:
Symbol
Meaning
Presentation
Examples
G
era
text
AD; Anno Domini; A
u
year
year
2004; 04
y
year-of-era
year
2004; 04
D
day-of-year
number
189
M/L
month-of-year
number/text
7; 07; Jul; July; J
d
day-of-month
number
10
Q/q
quarter-of-year
number/text
3; 03; Q3; 3rd quarter
Y
week-based-year
year
1996; 96
w
week-of-week-based-year
number
27
W
week-of-month
number
4
E
day-of-week
text
Tue; Tuesday; T
e/c
localized day-of-week
number/text
2; 02; Tue; Tuesday; T
F
week-of-month
number
3
a
am-pm-of-day
text
PM
h
clock-hour-of-am-pm (1-12)
number
12
K
hour-of-am-pm (0-11)
number
0
k
clock-hour-of-am-pm (1-24)
number
0
H
hour-of-day (0-23)
number
0
m
minute-of-hour
number
30
s
second-of-minute
number
55
S
fraction-of-second
fraction
978
A
milli-of-day
number
1234
n
nano-of-second
number
987654321
N
nano-of-day
number
1234000000
V
time-zone ID
zone-id
America/Los_Angeles; Z; -08:30
z
time-zone name
zone-name
Pacific Standard Time; PST
O
localized zone-offset
offset-O
GMT+8; GMT+08:00; UTC-08:00;
X
zone-offset 'Z' for zero
offset-X
Z; -08; -0830; -08:30; -083015; -08:30:15;
x
zone-offset
offset-x
+0000; -08; -0830; -08:30; -083015; -08:30:15;
Z
zone-offset
offset-Z
+0000; -0800; -08:00;
Do note that it has several predefined formatters for the more popular patterns. So instead of e.g. DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z", Locale.ENGLISH);, you could use DateTimeFormatter.RFC_1123_DATE_TIME. This is possible because they are, on the contrary to SimpleDateFormat, thread safe. You could thus also define your own, if necessary.
For a particular input string format, you don't need to use an explicit DateTimeFormatter: a standard ISO 8601 date, like 2016-09-26T17:44:57Z, can be parsed directly with LocalDateTime#parse(text) as it already uses the ISO_LOCAL_DATE_TIME formatter. Similarly, LocalDate#parse(text) parses an ISO date without the time component (see ISO_LOCAL_DATE), and ZonedDateTime#parse(text) parses an ISO date with an offset and time zone added (see ISO_ZONED_DATE_TIME).
Pre-Java 8
In case you're not on Java 8 yet, or are forced to use java.util.Date, then format the date using SimpleDateFormat using a format pattern matching the input string.
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
Note the importance of the explicit Locale argument. If you omit it, then it will use the default locale which is not necessarily English as used in the month name of the input string. If the locale doesn't match with the input string, then you would confusingly get a java.text.ParseException even though when the format pattern seems valid.
Here's an extract of relevance from the javadoc, listing all available format patterns:
Letter
Date or Time Component
Presentation
Examples
G
Era designator
Text
AD
y
Year
Year
1996; 96
Y
Week year
Year
2009; 09
M/L
Month in year
Month
July; Jul; 07
w
Week in year
Number
27
W
Week in month
Number
2
D
Day in year
Number
189
d
Day in month
Number
10
F
Day of week in month
Number
2
E
Day in week
Text
Tuesday; Tue
u
Day number of week
Number
1
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
z
Time zone
General time zone
Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00
Z
Time zone
RFC 822 time zone
-0800
X
Time zone
ISO 8601 time zone
-08; -0800; -08:00
Note that the patterns are case sensitive and that text based patterns of four characters or more represent the full form; otherwise a short or abbreviated form is used if available. So e.g. MMMMM or more is unnecessary.
Here are some examples of valid SimpleDateFormat patterns to parse a given string to date:
Input string
Pattern
2001.07.04 AD at 12:08:56 PDT
yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z
Wed, Jul 4, '01
EEE, MMM d, ''yy
12:08 PM
h:mm a
12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time
hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz
0:08 PM, PDT
K:mm a, z
02001.July.04 AD 12:08 PM
yyyyy.MMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa
Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700
EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z
010704120856-0700
yyMMddHHmmssZ
2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-0700
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ
2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-07:00
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX
2001-W27-3
YYYY-'W'ww-u
An important note is that SimpleDateFormat is not thread safe. In other words, you should never declare and assign it as a static or instance variable and then reuse it from different methods/threads. You should always create it brand new within the method local scope.

Ah yes the Java Date discussion, again. To deal with date manipulation we use Date, Calendar, GregorianCalendar, and SimpleDateFormat. For example using your January date as input:
Calendar mydate = new GregorianCalendar();
String mystring = "January 2, 2010";
Date thedate = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(mystring);
mydate.setTime(thedate);
//breakdown
System.out.println("mydate -> "+mydate);
System.out.println("year -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.YEAR));
System.out.println("month -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.MONTH));
System.out.println("dom -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
System.out.println("dow -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));
System.out.println("hour -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.HOUR));
System.out.println("minute -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
System.out.println("second -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.SECOND));
System.out.println("milli -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND));
System.out.println("ampm -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.AM_PM));
System.out.println("hod -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
Then you can manipulate that with something like:
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
mydate.set(Calendar.YEAR,2009);
mydate.set(Calendar.MONTH,Calendar.FEBRUARY);
mydate.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,25);
mydate.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,now.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
mydate.set(Calendar.MINUTE,now.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
mydate.set(Calendar.SECOND,now.get(Calendar.SECOND));
// or with one statement
//mydate.set(2009, Calendar.FEBRUARY, 25, now.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY), now.get(Calendar.MINUTE), now.get(Calendar.SECOND));
System.out.println("mydate -> "+mydate);
System.out.println("year -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.YEAR));
System.out.println("month -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.MONTH));
System.out.println("dom -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
System.out.println("dow -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));
System.out.println("hour -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.HOUR));
System.out.println("minute -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
System.out.println("second -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.SECOND));
System.out.println("milli -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND));
System.out.println("ampm -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.AM_PM));
System.out.println("hod -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));

String str_date = "11-June-07";
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy");
Date date = formatter.parse(str_date);

With Java 8 we get a new Date / Time API (JSR 310).
The following way can be used to parse the date in Java 8 without relying on Joda-Time:
String str = "January 2nd, 2010";
// if we 2nd even we have changed in pattern also it is not working please workout with 2nd
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MMMM Q, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(str, formatter);
// access date fields
int year = date.getYear(); // 2010
int day = date.getDayOfMonth(); // 2
Month month = date.getMonth(); // JANUARY
int monthAsInt = month.getValue(); // 1
LocalDate is the standard Java 8 class for representing a date (without time). If you want to parse values that contain date and time information you should use LocalDateTime. For values with timezones use ZonedDateTime. Both provide a parse() method similar to LocalDate:
LocalDateTime dateWithTime = LocalDateTime.parse(strWithDateAndTime, dateTimeFormatter);
ZonedDateTime zoned = ZonedDateTime.parse(strWithTimeZone, zoneFormatter);
The list formatting characters from DateTimeFormatter Javadoc:
All letters 'A' to 'Z' and 'a' to 'z' are reserved as pattern letters.
The following pattern letters are defined:
Symbol Meaning Presentation Examples
------ ------- ------------ -------
G era text AD; Anno Domini; A
u year year 2004; 04
y year-of-era year 2004; 04
D day-of-year number 189
M/L month-of-year number/text 7; 07; Jul; July; J
d day-of-month number 10
Q/q quarter-of-year number/text 3; 03; Q3; 3rd quarter
Y week-based-year year 1996; 96
w week-of-week-based-year number 27
W week-of-month number 4
E day-of-week text Tue; Tuesday; T
e/c localized day-of-week number/text 2; 02; Tue; Tuesday; T
F week-of-month number 3
a am-pm-of-day text PM
h clock-hour-of-am-pm (1-12) number 12
K hour-of-am-pm (0-11) number 0
k clock-hour-of-am-pm (1-24) number 0
H hour-of-day (0-23) number 0
m minute-of-hour number 30
s second-of-minute number 55
S fraction-of-second fraction 978
A milli-of-day number 1234
n nano-of-second number 987654321
N nano-of-day number 1234000000
V time-zone ID zone-id America/Los_Angeles; Z; -08:30
z time-zone name zone-name Pacific Standard Time; PST
O localized zone-offset offset-O GMT+8; GMT+08:00; UTC-08:00;
X zone-offset 'Z' for zero offset-X Z; -08; -0830; -08:30; -083015; -08:30:15;
x zone-offset offset-x +0000; -08; -0830; -08:30; -083015; -08:30:15;
Z zone-offset offset-Z +0000; -0800; -08:00;

While some of the answers are technically correct, they are not advisable.
The java.util.Date & Calendar classes are notoriously troublesome. Because of flaws in design and implementation, avoid them. Fortunately we have our choice of two other excellent date-time libraries:
Joda-TimeThis popular open-source free-of-cost library can be used across several versions of Java. Many examples of its usage may be found on StackOverflow. Reading some of these will help get you up to speed quickly.
java.time.* packageThis new set of classes are inspired by Joda-Time and defined by JSR 310. These classes are built into Java 8. A project is underway to backport these classes to Java 7, but that backporting is not backed by Oracle.
As Kristopher Johnson correctly noted in his comment on the question, the other answers ignore vital issues of:
Time of DayDate has both a date portion and a time-of-day portion)
Time ZoneThe beginning of a day depends on the time zone. If you fail to specify a time zone, the JVM's default time zone is applied. That means the behavior of your code may change when run on other computers or with a modified time zone setting. Probably not what you want.
LocaleThe Locale's language specifies how to interpret the words (name of month and of day) encountered during parsing. (The answer by BalusC handles this properly.) Also, the Locale affects the output of some formatters when generating a string representation of your date-time.
Joda-Time
A few notes about Joda-Time follow.
Time Zone
In Joda-Time, a DateTime object truly knows its own assigned time zone. This contrasts the java.util.Date class which seems to have a time zone but does not.
Note in the example code below how we pass a time zone object to the formatter which parses the string. That time zone is used to interpret that date-time as having occurred in that time zone. So you need to think about and determine the time zone represented by that string input.
Since you have no time portion in your input string, Joda-Time assigns the first moment of the day of the specified time zone as the time-of-day. Usually this means 00:00:00 but not always, because of Daylight Saving Time (DST) or other anomalies. By the way, you can do the same to any DateTime instance by calling withTimeAtStartOfDay.
Formatter Pattern
The characters used in a formatter's pattern are similar in Joda-Time to those in java.util.Date/Calendar but not exactly the same. Carefully read the doc.
Immutability
We usually use the immutable classes in Joda-Time. Rather than modify an existing Date-Time object, we call methods that create a new fresh instance based on the other object with most aspects copied except where alterations were desired. An example is the call to withZone in last line below. Immutability helps to make Joda-Time very thread-safe, and can also make some work more clear.
Conversion
You will need java.util.Date objects for use with other classes/framework that do not know about Joda-Time objects. Fortunately, it is very easy to move back and forth.
Going from a java.util.Date object (here named date) to Joda-Time DateTime…
org.joda.time.DateTime dateTime = new DateTime( date, timeZone );
Going the other direction from Joda-Time to a java.util.Date object…
java.util.Date date = dateTime.toDate();
Sample Code
String input = "January 2, 2010";
java.util.Locale locale = java.util.Locale.US;
DateTimeZone timeZone = DateTimeZone.forID( "Pacific/Honolulu" ); // Arbitrarily chosen for example.
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern( "MMMM d, yyyy" ).withZone( timeZone ).withLocale( locale );
DateTime dateTime = formatter.parseDateTime( input );
System.out.println( "dateTime: " + dateTime );
System.out.println( "dateTime in UTC/GMT: " + dateTime.withZone( DateTimeZone.UTC ) );
When run…
dateTime: 2010-01-02T00:00:00.000-10:00
dateTime in UTC/GMT: 2010-01-02T10:00:00.000Z

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date date;
try {
date = dateFormat.parse("2013-12-4");
System.out.println(date.toString()); // Wed Dec 04 00:00:00 CST 2013
String output = dateFormat.format(date);
System.out.println(output); // 2013-12-04
}
catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
It works fine for me.

While on dealing with the SimpleDateFormat class, it's important to remember that Date is not thread-safe and you can not share a single Date object with multiple threads.
Also there is big difference between "m" and "M" where small case is used for minutes and capital case is used for month. The same with "d" and "D". This can cause subtle bugs which often get overlooked. See Javadoc or Guide to Convert String to Date in Java for more details.

You can use SimpleDateformat for change string to date
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String strDate = "2000-01-01";
Date date = sdf.parse(strDate);

Simple two formatters we have used:
Which format date do we want?
Which format date is actually present?
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));
}

Also, SimpleDateFormat is not available with some of the client-side technologies, like GWT.
It's a good idea to go for Calendar.getInstance(), and your requirement is to compare two dates; go for long date.

My humble test program. I use it to play around with the formatter and look-up long dates that I find in log-files (but who has put them there...).
My test program:
package be.test.package.time;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.TimeZone;
public class TimeWork {
public static void main(String[] args) {
TimeZone timezone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
List<Long> longs = new ArrayList<>();
List<String> strings = new ArrayList<>();
//Formatting a date needs a timezone - otherwise the date get formatted to your system time zone.
//Use 24h format HH. In 12h format hh can be in range 0-11, which makes 12 overflow to 0.
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS");
formatter.setTimeZone(timezone);
Date now = new Date();
//Test dates
strings.add(formatter.format(now));
strings.add("01-01-1970 00:00:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-1970 00:00:01.000");
strings.add("01-01-1970 00:01:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-1970 01:00:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-1970 10:00:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-1970 12:00:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-1970 24:00:00.000");
strings.add("02-01-1970 00:00:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-1971 00:00:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-2014 00:00:00.000");
strings.add("31-12-1969 23:59:59.000");
strings.add("31-12-1969 23:59:00.000");
strings.add("31-12-1969 23:00:00.000");
//Test data
longs.add(now.getTime());
longs.add(-1L);
longs.add(0L); //Long date presentation at - midnight 1/1/1970 UTC - The timezone is important!
longs.add(1L);
longs.add(1000L);
longs.add(60000L);
longs.add(3600000L);
longs.add(36000000L);
longs.add(43200000L);
longs.add(86400000L);
longs.add(31536000000L);
longs.add(1388534400000L);
longs.add(7260000L);
longs.add(1417706084037L);
longs.add(-7260000L);
System.out.println("===== String to long =====");
//Show the long value of the date
for (String string: strings) {
try {
Date date = formatter.parse(string);
System.out.println("Formated date : " + string + " = Long = " + date.getTime());
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
System.out.println("===== Long to String =====");
//Show the date behind the long
for (Long lo : longs) {
Date date = new Date(lo);
String string = formatter.format(date);
System.out.println("Formated date : " + string + " = Long = " + lo);
}
}
}
Test results:
===== String to long =====
Formated date : 05-12-2014 10:17:34.873 = Long = 1417774654873
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:00:00.000 = Long = 0
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:00:01.000 = Long = 1000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:01:00.000 = Long = 60000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 01:00:00.000 = Long = 3600000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 10:00:00.000 = Long = 36000000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 12:00:00.000 = Long = 43200000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 24:00:00.000 = Long = 86400000
Formated date : 02-01-1970 00:00:00.000 = Long = 86400000
Formated date : 01-01-1971 00:00:00.000 = Long = 31536000000
Formated date : 01-01-2014 00:00:00.000 = Long = 1388534400000
Formated date : 31-12-1969 23:59:59.000 = Long = -1000
Formated date : 31-12-1969 23:59:00.000 = Long = -60000
Formated date : 31-12-1969 23:00:00.000 = Long = -3600000
===== Long to String =====
Formated date : 05-12-2014 10:17:34.873 = Long = 1417774654873
Formated date : 31-12-1969 23:59:59.999 = Long = -1
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:00:00.000 = Long = 0
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:00:00.001 = Long = 1
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:00:01.000 = Long = 1000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:01:00.000 = Long = 60000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 01:00:00.000 = Long = 3600000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 10:00:00.000 = Long = 36000000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 12:00:00.000 = Long = 43200000
Formated date : 02-01-1970 00:00:00.000 = Long = 86400000
Formated date : 01-01-1971 00:00:00.000 = Long = 31536000000
Formated date : 01-01-2014 00:00:00.000 = Long = 1388534400000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 02:01:00.000 = Long = 7260000
Formated date : 04-12-2014 15:14:44.037 = Long = 1417706084037
Formated date : 31-12-1969 21:59:00.000 = Long = -7260000

Source Link
For Android
Calendar.getInstance().getTime() gives
Thu Jul 26 15:54:13 GMT+05:30 2018
Use
String oldDate = "Thu Jul 26 15:54:13 GMT+05:30 2018";
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE LLL dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy");
Date updateLast = format.parse(oldDate);

I worked on parsing String to LocalDateTime. I leave it here as example
LocalDateTime d = LocalDateTime.parse("20180805 101010", DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyyMMdd HHmmss"));
And I got

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
Date date1 = null;
Date date2 = null;
try {
date1 = dateFormat.parse(t1);
date2 = dateFormat.parse(t2);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
String StDate = formatter.format(date1);
String edDate = formatter.format(date2);
System.out.println("ST "+ StDate);
System.out.println("ED "+ edDate);

From Date to String
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
return sdf.format(date);
From String to Date
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(datePattern);
return sdf.parse(dateStr);
From date String to different format
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
SimpleDateFormat newSdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
Date temp = sdf.parse(dateStr);
return newSdf.format(temp);
Source link.

String to Date conversion:
private Date StringtoDate(String date) throws Exception {
SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
java.sql.Date sqlDate = null;
if( !date.isEmpty()) {
try {
java.util.Date normalDate = sdf1.parse(date);
sqlDate = new java.sql.Date(normalDate.getTime());
} catch (ParseException e) {
throw new Exception("Not able to Parse the date", e);
}
}
return sqlDate;
}

Try this
String date = get_pump_data.getString("bond_end_date");
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd", Locale.ENGLISH);
Date datee = (Date)format.parse(date);

Calendar object returning 2016 when running instance for 2015 [duplicate]

What is the best way to convert a String in the format 'January 2, 2010' to a Date in Java?
Ultimately, I want to break out the month, the day, and the year as integers so that I can use
Date date = new Date();
date.setMonth()..
date.setYear()..
date.setDay()..
date.setlong currentTime = date.getTime();
to convert the date into time.

That's the hard way, and those java.util.Date setter methods have been deprecated since Java 1.1 (1997). Moreover, the whole java.util.Date class was de-facto deprecated (discommended) since introduction of java.time API in Java 8 (2014).
Simply format the date using DateTimeFormatter with a pattern matching the input string (the tutorial is available here).
In your specific case of "January 2, 2010" as the input string:
"January" is the full text month, so use the MMMM pattern for it
"2" is the short day-of-month, so use the d pattern for it.
"2010" is the 4-digit year, so use the yyyy pattern for it.
String string = "January 2, 2010";
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MMMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(string, formatter);
System.out.println(date); // 2010-01-02
Note: if your format pattern happens to contain the time part as well, then use LocalDateTime#parse(text, formatter) instead of LocalDate#parse(text, formatter). And, if your format pattern happens to contain the time zone as well, then use ZonedDateTime#parse(text, formatter) instead.
Here's an extract of relevance from the javadoc, listing all available format patterns:
Symbol
Meaning
Presentation
Examples
G
era
text
AD; Anno Domini; A
u
year
year
2004; 04
y
year-of-era
year
2004; 04
D
day-of-year
number
189
M/L
month-of-year
number/text
7; 07; Jul; July; J
d
day-of-month
number
10
Q/q
quarter-of-year
number/text
3; 03; Q3; 3rd quarter
Y
week-based-year
year
1996; 96
w
week-of-week-based-year
number
27
W
week-of-month
number
4
E
day-of-week
text
Tue; Tuesday; T
e/c
localized day-of-week
number/text
2; 02; Tue; Tuesday; T
F
week-of-month
number
3
a
am-pm-of-day
text
PM
h
clock-hour-of-am-pm (1-12)
number
12
K
hour-of-am-pm (0-11)
number
0
k
clock-hour-of-am-pm (1-24)
number
0
H
hour-of-day (0-23)
number
0
m
minute-of-hour
number
30
s
second-of-minute
number
55
S
fraction-of-second
fraction
978
A
milli-of-day
number
1234
n
nano-of-second
number
987654321
N
nano-of-day
number
1234000000
V
time-zone ID
zone-id
America/Los_Angeles; Z; -08:30
z
time-zone name
zone-name
Pacific Standard Time; PST
O
localized zone-offset
offset-O
GMT+8; GMT+08:00; UTC-08:00;
X
zone-offset 'Z' for zero
offset-X
Z; -08; -0830; -08:30; -083015; -08:30:15;
x
zone-offset
offset-x
+0000; -08; -0830; -08:30; -083015; -08:30:15;
Z
zone-offset
offset-Z
+0000; -0800; -08:00;
Do note that it has several predefined formatters for the more popular patterns. So instead of e.g. DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z", Locale.ENGLISH);, you could use DateTimeFormatter.RFC_1123_DATE_TIME. This is possible because they are, on the contrary to SimpleDateFormat, thread safe. You could thus also define your own, if necessary.
For a particular input string format, you don't need to use an explicit DateTimeFormatter: a standard ISO 8601 date, like 2016-09-26T17:44:57Z, can be parsed directly with LocalDateTime#parse(text) as it already uses the ISO_LOCAL_DATE_TIME formatter. Similarly, LocalDate#parse(text) parses an ISO date without the time component (see ISO_LOCAL_DATE), and ZonedDateTime#parse(text) parses an ISO date with an offset and time zone added (see ISO_ZONED_DATE_TIME).
Pre-Java 8
In case you're not on Java 8 yet, or are forced to use java.util.Date, then format the date using SimpleDateFormat using a format pattern matching the input string.
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
Note the importance of the explicit Locale argument. If you omit it, then it will use the default locale which is not necessarily English as used in the month name of the input string. If the locale doesn't match with the input string, then you would confusingly get a java.text.ParseException even though when the format pattern seems valid.
Here's an extract of relevance from the javadoc, listing all available format patterns:
Letter
Date or Time Component
Presentation
Examples
G
Era designator
Text
AD
y
Year
Year
1996; 96
Y
Week year
Year
2009; 09
M/L
Month in year
Month
July; Jul; 07
w
Week in year
Number
27
W
Week in month
Number
2
D
Day in year
Number
189
d
Day in month
Number
10
F
Day of week in month
Number
2
E
Day in week
Text
Tuesday; Tue
u
Day number of week
Number
1
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
z
Time zone
General time zone
Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00
Z
Time zone
RFC 822 time zone
-0800
X
Time zone
ISO 8601 time zone
-08; -0800; -08:00
Note that the patterns are case sensitive and that text based patterns of four characters or more represent the full form; otherwise a short or abbreviated form is used if available. So e.g. MMMMM or more is unnecessary.
Here are some examples of valid SimpleDateFormat patterns to parse a given string to date:
Input string
Pattern
2001.07.04 AD at 12:08:56 PDT
yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z
Wed, Jul 4, '01
EEE, MMM d, ''yy
12:08 PM
h:mm a
12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time
hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz
0:08 PM, PDT
K:mm a, z
02001.July.04 AD 12:08 PM
yyyyy.MMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa
Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700
EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z
010704120856-0700
yyMMddHHmmssZ
2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-0700
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ
2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-07:00
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX
2001-W27-3
YYYY-'W'ww-u
An important note is that SimpleDateFormat is not thread safe. In other words, you should never declare and assign it as a static or instance variable and then reuse it from different methods/threads. You should always create it brand new within the method local scope.

Ah yes the Java Date discussion, again. To deal with date manipulation we use Date, Calendar, GregorianCalendar, and SimpleDateFormat. For example using your January date as input:
Calendar mydate = new GregorianCalendar();
String mystring = "January 2, 2010";
Date thedate = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(mystring);
mydate.setTime(thedate);
//breakdown
System.out.println("mydate -> "+mydate);
System.out.println("year -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.YEAR));
System.out.println("month -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.MONTH));
System.out.println("dom -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
System.out.println("dow -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));
System.out.println("hour -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.HOUR));
System.out.println("minute -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
System.out.println("second -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.SECOND));
System.out.println("milli -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND));
System.out.println("ampm -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.AM_PM));
System.out.println("hod -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
Then you can manipulate that with something like:
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
mydate.set(Calendar.YEAR,2009);
mydate.set(Calendar.MONTH,Calendar.FEBRUARY);
mydate.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,25);
mydate.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,now.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
mydate.set(Calendar.MINUTE,now.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
mydate.set(Calendar.SECOND,now.get(Calendar.SECOND));
// or with one statement
//mydate.set(2009, Calendar.FEBRUARY, 25, now.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY), now.get(Calendar.MINUTE), now.get(Calendar.SECOND));
System.out.println("mydate -> "+mydate);
System.out.println("year -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.YEAR));
System.out.println("month -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.MONTH));
System.out.println("dom -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
System.out.println("dow -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));
System.out.println("hour -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.HOUR));
System.out.println("minute -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
System.out.println("second -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.SECOND));
System.out.println("milli -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND));
System.out.println("ampm -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.AM_PM));
System.out.println("hod -> "+mydate.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));

String str_date = "11-June-07";
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy");
Date date = formatter.parse(str_date);

With Java 8 we get a new Date / Time API (JSR 310).
The following way can be used to parse the date in Java 8 without relying on Joda-Time:
String str = "January 2nd, 2010";
// if we 2nd even we have changed in pattern also it is not working please workout with 2nd
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MMMM Q, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(str, formatter);
// access date fields
int year = date.getYear(); // 2010
int day = date.getDayOfMonth(); // 2
Month month = date.getMonth(); // JANUARY
int monthAsInt = month.getValue(); // 1
LocalDate is the standard Java 8 class for representing a date (without time). If you want to parse values that contain date and time information you should use LocalDateTime. For values with timezones use ZonedDateTime. Both provide a parse() method similar to LocalDate:
LocalDateTime dateWithTime = LocalDateTime.parse(strWithDateAndTime, dateTimeFormatter);
ZonedDateTime zoned = ZonedDateTime.parse(strWithTimeZone, zoneFormatter);
The list formatting characters from DateTimeFormatter Javadoc:
All letters 'A' to 'Z' and 'a' to 'z' are reserved as pattern letters.
The following pattern letters are defined:
Symbol Meaning Presentation Examples
------ ------- ------------ -------
G era text AD; Anno Domini; A
u year year 2004; 04
y year-of-era year 2004; 04
D day-of-year number 189
M/L month-of-year number/text 7; 07; Jul; July; J
d day-of-month number 10
Q/q quarter-of-year number/text 3; 03; Q3; 3rd quarter
Y week-based-year year 1996; 96
w week-of-week-based-year number 27
W week-of-month number 4
E day-of-week text Tue; Tuesday; T
e/c localized day-of-week number/text 2; 02; Tue; Tuesday; T
F week-of-month number 3
a am-pm-of-day text PM
h clock-hour-of-am-pm (1-12) number 12
K hour-of-am-pm (0-11) number 0
k clock-hour-of-am-pm (1-24) number 0
H hour-of-day (0-23) number 0
m minute-of-hour number 30
s second-of-minute number 55
S fraction-of-second fraction 978
A milli-of-day number 1234
n nano-of-second number 987654321
N nano-of-day number 1234000000
V time-zone ID zone-id America/Los_Angeles; Z; -08:30
z time-zone name zone-name Pacific Standard Time; PST
O localized zone-offset offset-O GMT+8; GMT+08:00; UTC-08:00;
X zone-offset 'Z' for zero offset-X Z; -08; -0830; -08:30; -083015; -08:30:15;
x zone-offset offset-x +0000; -08; -0830; -08:30; -083015; -08:30:15;
Z zone-offset offset-Z +0000; -0800; -08:00;

While some of the answers are technically correct, they are not advisable.
The java.util.Date & Calendar classes are notoriously troublesome. Because of flaws in design and implementation, avoid them. Fortunately we have our choice of two other excellent date-time libraries:
Joda-TimeThis popular open-source free-of-cost library can be used across several versions of Java. Many examples of its usage may be found on StackOverflow. Reading some of these will help get you up to speed quickly.
java.time.* packageThis new set of classes are inspired by Joda-Time and defined by JSR 310. These classes are built into Java 8. A project is underway to backport these classes to Java 7, but that backporting is not backed by Oracle.
As Kristopher Johnson correctly noted in his comment on the question, the other answers ignore vital issues of:
Time of DayDate has both a date portion and a time-of-day portion)
Time ZoneThe beginning of a day depends on the time zone. If you fail to specify a time zone, the JVM's default time zone is applied. That means the behavior of your code may change when run on other computers or with a modified time zone setting. Probably not what you want.
LocaleThe Locale's language specifies how to interpret the words (name of month and of day) encountered during parsing. (The answer by BalusC handles this properly.) Also, the Locale affects the output of some formatters when generating a string representation of your date-time.
Joda-Time
A few notes about Joda-Time follow.
Time Zone
In Joda-Time, a DateTime object truly knows its own assigned time zone. This contrasts the java.util.Date class which seems to have a time zone but does not.
Note in the example code below how we pass a time zone object to the formatter which parses the string. That time zone is used to interpret that date-time as having occurred in that time zone. So you need to think about and determine the time zone represented by that string input.
Since you have no time portion in your input string, Joda-Time assigns the first moment of the day of the specified time zone as the time-of-day. Usually this means 00:00:00 but not always, because of Daylight Saving Time (DST) or other anomalies. By the way, you can do the same to any DateTime instance by calling withTimeAtStartOfDay.
Formatter Pattern
The characters used in a formatter's pattern are similar in Joda-Time to those in java.util.Date/Calendar but not exactly the same. Carefully read the doc.
Immutability
We usually use the immutable classes in Joda-Time. Rather than modify an existing Date-Time object, we call methods that create a new fresh instance based on the other object with most aspects copied except where alterations were desired. An example is the call to withZone in last line below. Immutability helps to make Joda-Time very thread-safe, and can also make some work more clear.
Conversion
You will need java.util.Date objects for use with other classes/framework that do not know about Joda-Time objects. Fortunately, it is very easy to move back and forth.
Going from a java.util.Date object (here named date) to Joda-Time DateTime…
org.joda.time.DateTime dateTime = new DateTime( date, timeZone );
Going the other direction from Joda-Time to a java.util.Date object…
java.util.Date date = dateTime.toDate();
Sample Code
String input = "January 2, 2010";
java.util.Locale locale = java.util.Locale.US;
DateTimeZone timeZone = DateTimeZone.forID( "Pacific/Honolulu" ); // Arbitrarily chosen for example.
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern( "MMMM d, yyyy" ).withZone( timeZone ).withLocale( locale );
DateTime dateTime = formatter.parseDateTime( input );
System.out.println( "dateTime: " + dateTime );
System.out.println( "dateTime in UTC/GMT: " + dateTime.withZone( DateTimeZone.UTC ) );
When run…
dateTime: 2010-01-02T00:00:00.000-10:00
dateTime in UTC/GMT: 2010-01-02T10:00:00.000Z

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date date;
try {
date = dateFormat.parse("2013-12-4");
System.out.println(date.toString()); // Wed Dec 04 00:00:00 CST 2013
String output = dateFormat.format(date);
System.out.println(output); // 2013-12-04
}
catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
It works fine for me.

While on dealing with the SimpleDateFormat class, it's important to remember that Date is not thread-safe and you can not share a single Date object with multiple threads.
Also there is big difference between "m" and "M" where small case is used for minutes and capital case is used for month. The same with "d" and "D". This can cause subtle bugs which often get overlooked. See Javadoc or Guide to Convert String to Date in Java for more details.

You can use SimpleDateformat for change string to date
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String strDate = "2000-01-01";
Date date = sdf.parse(strDate);

Simple two formatters we have used:
Which format date do we want?
Which format date is actually present?
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));
}

Also, SimpleDateFormat is not available with some of the client-side technologies, like GWT.
It's a good idea to go for Calendar.getInstance(), and your requirement is to compare two dates; go for long date.

My humble test program. I use it to play around with the formatter and look-up long dates that I find in log-files (but who has put them there...).
My test program:
package be.test.package.time;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.TimeZone;
public class TimeWork {
public static void main(String[] args) {
TimeZone timezone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
List<Long> longs = new ArrayList<>();
List<String> strings = new ArrayList<>();
//Formatting a date needs a timezone - otherwise the date get formatted to your system time zone.
//Use 24h format HH. In 12h format hh can be in range 0-11, which makes 12 overflow to 0.
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS");
formatter.setTimeZone(timezone);
Date now = new Date();
//Test dates
strings.add(formatter.format(now));
strings.add("01-01-1970 00:00:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-1970 00:00:01.000");
strings.add("01-01-1970 00:01:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-1970 01:00:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-1970 10:00:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-1970 12:00:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-1970 24:00:00.000");
strings.add("02-01-1970 00:00:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-1971 00:00:00.000");
strings.add("01-01-2014 00:00:00.000");
strings.add("31-12-1969 23:59:59.000");
strings.add("31-12-1969 23:59:00.000");
strings.add("31-12-1969 23:00:00.000");
//Test data
longs.add(now.getTime());
longs.add(-1L);
longs.add(0L); //Long date presentation at - midnight 1/1/1970 UTC - The timezone is important!
longs.add(1L);
longs.add(1000L);
longs.add(60000L);
longs.add(3600000L);
longs.add(36000000L);
longs.add(43200000L);
longs.add(86400000L);
longs.add(31536000000L);
longs.add(1388534400000L);
longs.add(7260000L);
longs.add(1417706084037L);
longs.add(-7260000L);
System.out.println("===== String to long =====");
//Show the long value of the date
for (String string: strings) {
try {
Date date = formatter.parse(string);
System.out.println("Formated date : " + string + " = Long = " + date.getTime());
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
System.out.println("===== Long to String =====");
//Show the date behind the long
for (Long lo : longs) {
Date date = new Date(lo);
String string = formatter.format(date);
System.out.println("Formated date : " + string + " = Long = " + lo);
}
}
}
Test results:
===== String to long =====
Formated date : 05-12-2014 10:17:34.873 = Long = 1417774654873
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:00:00.000 = Long = 0
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:00:01.000 = Long = 1000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:01:00.000 = Long = 60000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 01:00:00.000 = Long = 3600000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 10:00:00.000 = Long = 36000000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 12:00:00.000 = Long = 43200000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 24:00:00.000 = Long = 86400000
Formated date : 02-01-1970 00:00:00.000 = Long = 86400000
Formated date : 01-01-1971 00:00:00.000 = Long = 31536000000
Formated date : 01-01-2014 00:00:00.000 = Long = 1388534400000
Formated date : 31-12-1969 23:59:59.000 = Long = -1000
Formated date : 31-12-1969 23:59:00.000 = Long = -60000
Formated date : 31-12-1969 23:00:00.000 = Long = -3600000
===== Long to String =====
Formated date : 05-12-2014 10:17:34.873 = Long = 1417774654873
Formated date : 31-12-1969 23:59:59.999 = Long = -1
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:00:00.000 = Long = 0
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:00:00.001 = Long = 1
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:00:01.000 = Long = 1000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 00:01:00.000 = Long = 60000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 01:00:00.000 = Long = 3600000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 10:00:00.000 = Long = 36000000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 12:00:00.000 = Long = 43200000
Formated date : 02-01-1970 00:00:00.000 = Long = 86400000
Formated date : 01-01-1971 00:00:00.000 = Long = 31536000000
Formated date : 01-01-2014 00:00:00.000 = Long = 1388534400000
Formated date : 01-01-1970 02:01:00.000 = Long = 7260000
Formated date : 04-12-2014 15:14:44.037 = Long = 1417706084037
Formated date : 31-12-1969 21:59:00.000 = Long = -7260000

Source Link
For Android
Calendar.getInstance().getTime() gives
Thu Jul 26 15:54:13 GMT+05:30 2018
Use
String oldDate = "Thu Jul 26 15:54:13 GMT+05:30 2018";
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE LLL dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy");
Date updateLast = format.parse(oldDate);

I worked on parsing String to LocalDateTime. I leave it here as example
LocalDateTime d = LocalDateTime.parse("20180805 101010", DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyyMMdd HHmmss"));
And I got

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
Date date1 = null;
Date date2 = null;
try {
date1 = dateFormat.parse(t1);
date2 = dateFormat.parse(t2);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
String StDate = formatter.format(date1);
String edDate = formatter.format(date2);
System.out.println("ST "+ StDate);
System.out.println("ED "+ edDate);

From Date to String
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
return sdf.format(date);
From String to Date
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(datePattern);
return sdf.parse(dateStr);
From date String to different format
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
SimpleDateFormat newSdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
Date temp = sdf.parse(dateStr);
return newSdf.format(temp);
Source link.

String to Date conversion:
private Date StringtoDate(String date) throws Exception {
SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
java.sql.Date sqlDate = null;
if( !date.isEmpty()) {
try {
java.util.Date normalDate = sdf1.parse(date);
sqlDate = new java.sql.Date(normalDate.getTime());
} catch (ParseException e) {
throw new Exception("Not able to Parse the date", e);
}
}
return sqlDate;
}

Try this
String date = get_pump_data.getString("bond_end_date");
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd", Locale.ENGLISH);
Date datee = (Date)format.parse(date);

How to convert "12-JAN-15 03.51.22.638000000 AM" in java?

I have a date in the format "12-JAN-15 03.51.22.638000000 AM".
I want it to convert to "12-01-15 00:00:00.000"
Even though there are hours,minuts and secs etc,i want the output with zeros only.

You want to convert one date format to another. This answer does exactly that. It states
DateFormat originalFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM dd, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
DateFormat targetFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
Date date = originalFormat.parse("August 21, 2012");
String formattedDate = targetFormat.format(date); // 20120821
In your case the original and target format are as follow
Original format: dd-MMM-yy hh.mm.ss.N a
Target format: dd-MM-yy hh:mm:ss:S
I am not sure how to replace the time data with 0. Perhaps a string manipulation is the way to go in your case. But if you want more control then you can do something like this.
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date); // this is the date we parsed above
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,0);
cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE,0);
cal.set(Calendar.SECOND,0);
cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND,0);
formattedDate = targetFormat.format(cal.getTime());
EDIT
# Sufiyan Ghori has provided a more cleaner way to do it.

Using Java 8,
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter
.ofPattern("MM-dd-yy:hh:mm:ss:nn"); // n = nano-of-second
LocalDateTime today = LocalDateTime.of(LocalDate.of(2015, 1, 15),
LocalTime.of(00, 00, 00, 00));
System.out.println(today.format(formatter));
Output
01-15-15:12:00:00:00
Explanation,
LocalDateTime.of(LocalDate.of(int Year, int Month, int Day),
LocalTime.of(int Hour, int Minutes, int Seconds, int nanoOfSeconds));

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
You can follow to this javadoc, listing all available format patterns:
G Era designator Text AD
y Year Year 1996; 96
M Month in year Month July; Jul; 07
w Week in year Number 27
W Week in month Number 2
D Day in year Number 189
d Day in month Number 10
F Day of week in month Number 2
E Day in week Text Tuesday; Tue
u Day number of week Number 1
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
z Time zone General time zone Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT- 08:00
Z Time zone RFC 822 time zone -0800
X Time zone ISO 8601 time zone -08; -0800; -08:00
You can refer to this answer for detailed explanation.

String dateInString = "12-JAN-15 10.17.07.107000000 AM";
dateInString = dateInString.substring(0, 9);
Date date = null;
try {
date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(dateInString);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
String newFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yy 00:00:00.000").format(date);
System.out.println(newFormat);

Convert string to DateFormat

i am trying to convert a string utc date to Date. by using the following code
This is My UTC String Date - 12/31/2013 8:40:00 AM
i want to convert this string to UTC Date.
static final String DATEFORMAT = "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss aa";
StringDateToDate("**12/31/2013 8:40:00 AM**");
public static Date StringDateToDate(String StrDate)
{
Date dateToReturn = null;
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(DATEFORMAT);
dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
try {
dateToReturn = dateFormat.parse(StrDate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return dateToReturn;
}
but i am getting the wrong date in wrong format (sun jul 12 19:40:00 CDT 2015). how can i convert this utc date string to utc date. i am getting the utcdatestring from a rest webservice in XML format.

Just try this. Probably the order of your Date Format is wrong
String dtStart = "12/31/2013 8:40:00 AM";
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss aa");
Date date = format.parse(dtStart);
System.out.println(date);

First your date format is wrong it should be :
static final String DATEFORMAT = "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss aa";
secondly, your input has to not have the asterixs(*) like this :
Date a = StringDateToDate("12/31/2013 8:40:00 AM");
//yea I know I should be using Log but I'm testing on java
System.out.println(a.toString());
If you really want the asterixs, do this :
String b = "**12/31/2013 8:40:00 AM**";
StringDateToDate(b.substring(2, b.length()-2));

Your input is wrong(there is no 31 month) , change it to a valid month
StringDateToDate("12/01/2013 8:40:00 AM");
to be compatible with the DateFormat
or Change your Dateformat to suit your input value
static final String DATEFORMAT = "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss aa";

Change your dateformat like this.
String DATEFORMAT = "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss aa";

G Era designator Text AD
y Year Year 1996; 96
M Month in year Month July; Jul; 07
w Week in year Number 27
W Week in month Number 2
D Day in year Number 189
d Day in month Number 10
F Day of week in month Number 2
E Day in week Text Tuesday; Tue
u Day number of week Number 1
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
z Time zone General time zone Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00
Z Time zone RFC 822 time zone -0800
X Time zone ISO 8601 time zone -08; -0800; -08:00
This is the Date and Time Patterns.
String string = "January 2, 2010";
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(string);
System.out.println(date);

Your date format should be this in order to parse the String you have given here.
static final String DATEFORMAT = "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss aa";

And also watch out for HH. HH is Hour in day (0-23). If your input date hour is 0-11 (possibly like this since AM\PM is given and patter has aa at the end) then KK must be used instead of HH.

The result obtained is not wrong but it is what expected.
By default, parsing is lenient. With lenient parsing, the parser may use heuristics to interpret inputs that do not precisely match this object's format.
The heuristics uses the number specified for month not as months in the specified year but as months since the specified year, 31 months are 2 years and 7 months so: 01/2013 + 2years + 7 months = 07/2015.
This can be confusing so the suggestion is to set the lenient parsing to false before parsing but when pattern doesn't match something in your string a parsing exception is thrown.
public static Date StringDateToDate(String StrDate) {
Date dateToReturn = null;
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(DATEFORMAT);
dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
dateFormat.setLenient(false);
try {
dateToReturn = dateFormat.parse(StrDate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return dateToReturn;
}