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How to get the correct format of dateand time in mysql?

When I get the date and time in MySQL it retrieves it in this format:
2016-01-14 14:24:00.0
Where does the .0 come from and how do I get this format with Java:
2016-01-14 14:24:00

You can use 2 ways to do this.
Split the date string at '.'
String date = "2016-01-14 14:24:00.0";
String newDate = date.split("\\.")[0];
System.out.println(newDate);
Use SimpleDateFormat
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
Date date = sdf.parse("2016-01-14 14:24:00.0");
sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
System.out.println(sdf.format(date));

If you are getting date as string, you can use Format to get the format you need:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(YourDateField, '%d-%m-%Y %T')
FROM YourTable
Have a look here for all possible formats

If you are getting your date as a java.sql.Timestamp, you can get the corresponding java.util.Date instance very easily and then format it to the desired string representation with a java.text.SimpleDateFormat class.

Timestamp to String to DateTime issues

I tried to see questions about date convert issues between two database using java but didn't solve my problem.
Here is the current date to insert in my database with a DateTime format :
java.sql.Date SQLDateValue = new java.sql.Date(System.currentTimeMillis()) ;
preparedStatement.setDate(index, SQLDateValue);
And here is the Timestamp from an API named Vdoc, convert to String and i tried to convert it to java.sql.Date (DateTime) :
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
java.util.Date DateValue = (java.util.Date) this.getWorkflowInstance().getValue(this.ListeChamps[i][2]);
String StringDateValue = DateValue.toString();
java.sql.Date SQLDateValue = new java.sql.Date (sdf.parse(StringDateValue).getTime());
preparedStatement.setDate(index, SQLDateValue);
The second line return a field value containing a String but i need to use toString().
The following error message is :
Failed to convert the date and / or time from a string.
Both of my date parameters are java.sql.date, i don't understand.
If you have an idea of ​​what happens with this, it would be nice to help me.
Ezerah
Sorry for my bad english

Just construct the java.sql.Date from java.util.Date.
Call java.util.Date::getTime to extract the count of milliseconds from epoch. Pass that count to constructor of java.sql.Date.
In your case below should work.
java.util.Date DateValue = (java.util.Date) this.getWorkflowInstance().getValue(this.ListeChamps[i][2]);
java.sql.Date SQLDateValue = new java.sql.Date (DataValue.getTime());
preparedStatement.setDate(index, SQLDateValue);

try this:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
java.util.Date DateValue = **sdf.parse(**this.getWorkflowInstance().getValue(this.ListeChamps[i][2])**)**;
String StringDateValue = DateValue.toString();
java.sql.Date SQLDateValue = new java.sql.Date (sdf.parse(StringDateValue).getTime());
preparedStatement.setDate(index, SQLDateValue);
You can't cast String to Date, you should parse it

How do I format a java.sql.date into this format: "MM-dd-yyyy"?

I need to get a java.sql.date in the following format "MM-dd-yyyy", but I need it to stay a java.sql.date so I can put it into a table as date field. So, it cannot be a String after the formatting, it has to end up as a java.sql.date object.
This is what I have tried so far:
java.util.Date
today=new Date();
String date = formatter.format(today);
Date todaydate = formatter.parse(date);
java.sql.Date fromdate = new java.sql.Date(todaydate.getTime());
java.sql.Date todate=new java.sql.Date(todaydate.getTime());
String tempfromdate=formatter.format(fromdate);
String temptodate=formatter.format(todate);
java.sql.Date fromdate1=(java.sql.Date) formatter.parse(tempfromdate);
java.sql.Date todate1=(java.sql.Date) formatter.parse(temptodate);

You can do it the same way as a java.util.Date (since java.sql.Date is a sub-class of java.util.Date) with a SimpleDateFormat
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(
"MM-dd-yyyy");
int year = 2014;
int month = 10;
int day = 31;
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, month - 1); // <-- months start
// at 0.
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, day);
java.sql.Date date = new java.sql.Date(cal.getTimeInMillis());
System.out.println(sdf.format(date));
Output is the expected
10-31-2014

Use below code i have convert today date. learn from it and try with your code
Date today = new Date();
//If you print Date, you will get un formatted output
System.out.println("Today is : " + today);
//formatting date in Java using SimpleDateFormat
SimpleDateFormat DATE_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
String date = DATE_FORMAT.format(today);
System.out.println("Today in MM-dd-yyyy format : " + date);
Date date1 = formatter.parse(date);
System.out.println(date1);
System.out.println(formatter.format(date1));

A simpler solution would be to just convert the date in the query to epoch before comparing.
SELECT date_column from YourTable where UNIX_TIMESTAMP(date_column) > ?;
Then, simply pass date.getTime() when binding value to ?.
NOTE: The UNIX_TIMESTAMP function is for MySQL. You'll find such functions for other databases too.

java.util.Date today=new Date();
java.sql.Date date=new java.sql.Date(today.getTime()); //your SQL date object
SimpleDateFormat simpDate = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
System.out.println(simpDate.format(date)); //output String in MM-dd-yyyy
Note that it does not matter if your date is in format mm-dd-yyyy or any other format, when you compare date (java.sql.Date or java.util.Date) they will always be compared in form of the dates they represent. The format of date is just a way of setting or getting date in desired format.

The formatter.parse will only give you a java.util.Date not a java.sql.Date
once you have a java.util.Date you can convert it to a java.sql.Date by doing
java.sql.Date sqlDate = new java.sql.Date (normalDate.getTime ());
Also note that no dates have any built in format, it is in reality a class built on top of a number.

For anyone reading this in 2017 or later, the modern solution uses LocalDate from java.time, the modern Java date and time API, instead of java.sql.Date. The latter is long outdated.
Formatting your date
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM-dd-uuuu", Locale.US);
LocalDate fromDate = LocalDate.now(ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata"));
String tempFromDate = fromDate.format(formatter);
System.out.println(tempFromDate);
This prints something like
11-25-2017
Don’t confuse your date value with its textual representation
Neither a LocalDate nor a java.sql.Date object has any inherent format. So please try — and try hard if necessary — to keep the two concepts apart, the date on one side and its presentation to a user on the other.
It’s like int and all other data types. An int can have a value of 4284. You may format this into 4,284 or 4 284, 004284 or even into hex representation. This does in no way alter the int itself. In the same way, formatting your date does not affect your date object. So use the string for presenting to the user, and use LocalDate for storing into your database (a modern JDBC driver or other modern means of database access wil be happy to do that, for example through PreparedStatement.setObject()).
Use explicit time zone
Getting today’s date is a time zone sensitive operation since it is not the same date in all time zones of the world. I strongly recommend you make this fact explicit in the code. In my snippet I have used Asia/Kolkata time zone, please substitute your desired time zone. You may use ZoneId.systemDefault() for your JVM’s time zone setting, but please be aware that this setting may be changed under our feet by other parts of your program or other programs running in the same JVM, so this is fragile.

Oracle Date Format change to yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss

I have date saletime as 2/25/14 22:06 I want to store it in oracle table in the yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss. So I wrote following java code
Date saleTime = sale.getSaleTime();
logger.info("DateTime is "+saleTime);
SimpleDateFormat formatter=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
Date saleTimeNorm = formatter.parse(formatter.format(saleTime));
logger.info("DateTime after Formating "+saleTimeNorm);
Timestamp oracleDate = new Timestamp(saleTimeNorm.getTime());
logger.info("New Format Inserting :"+oracleDate);
sale.setSaleTime(oracleDate);
But this seems to be giving :0014-02-25 22:06:00.0
Any suggestions ?

Your getSaleTime() method somehow regards "14" as a four-digit year, and returns the year 14.
After you have executed getSaleTime(), you already have a Date variable; there is no need (and no use) in converting it to a different output format and re-parsing the result. The Date you get from the calls to format() and parse() will be the same one you started with.
You can create your Timestamp using getTime() on the result of the call to getSaleTime(). That will be correct once you change getSaleTime() so that it returns the date in the correct year.

Something must be wrong in your sale.getSaleTime() method. Because the following code working as needed.
Date saleTime = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
SimpleDateFormat formatter=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
Date saleTimeNorm = formatter.parse(formatter.format(saleTime));
Timestamp oracleDate = new Timestamp(saleTimeNorm.getTime());
System.out.println(oracleDate);
//2014-05-13 03:58:53.0

Convert Calendar to XMLGregorianCalendar with specific formatting

I am having some issues in converting a calendar object to an XMLGregorian calendar in the format of YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.
My current code is:
Calendar createDate = tRow.getBasic().getDateCreated(0).getSearchValue();
Date cDate = createDate.getTime();
GregorianCalendar c = new GregorianCalendar();
c.setTime(cDate);
XMLGregorianCalendar date2 = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(c);
which returns a date of 2013-01-03T11:50:00.000-05:00.
I would like it to read 2013-01-03 11:50:00.
I have checked a bunch of posts, which use DateFormat to parse a string representation of the date, however my dates are provided to me as a Calendar object, not a string.
I'd appreciate a nudge in the right direction to help me figure this one out.

An XMLGregorianCalendar has a specific W3C string representation that you cannot change.
However, you can format a Date with SimpleDateFormat.
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String dateStr = dateFormat.format(cDate);
You can get a Date object from a XMLGregorianCalendar object as follows:
xmlCalendar.getGregorianCalendar().getDate()

DateFormat#format takes a Object parameter. From memory, it should accept a Calendar object, if not, it WILL accept a Date object, so you could use Calendar#getTime as a worse case scenario
You can use a instance of SimpleDateFormat to specify a custom formatting. This will ensure that the result is always the same for different systems

Have you seen this tutorial it may help?
http://www.vogella.com/articles/JavaDateTimeAPI/article.html
Speicifcally this code is a good example:
// Format the output with leading zeros for days and month
SimpleDateFormat date_format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
System.out.println(date_format.format(cal1.getTime()));