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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");

Changing date formats

I have the following code:
// OLD DATE
String date = "Mon, 06/07";
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd");
String strDate = date.substring(date.length() - 5);
Date dateOld;
try {
dateOld = df.parse(strDate);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
String dateStr = df.format(dateOld);
MonthDay monthDay = MonthDay.parse(dateStr, DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM/dd"));
ZonedDateTime dateNew = ZonedDateTime.now().with(monthDay);
// NEW DATE
System.out.println(dateNew.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("uuuu-MM-dd'T00:00:00Z'")));
Basically what I am trying to do is change Mon, 06/07 format to this format 2021-06-07T00:00:00Z.
What I have works, but it is really terrible. What would be a better way of doing it?

This is a little tricky as you need to make some assumptions
The year, as it's not specified in the original format
TimeZone, as it's not specified at all (the final output seems to point to UTC)
The first thing your need to do, is parse the String input into a LocalDate (you could just go straight to ZonedDate, but this is where I started)
String date = "Mon, 06/07";
DateTimeFormatter parseFormatter = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
.appendPattern("E, M/d")
.parseDefaulting(ChronoField.YEAR, 2021)
.toFormatter(Locale.US);
LocalDate ld = LocalDate.parse(date, parseFormatter);
Then you need to convert that to LocalDateTime
LocalDateTime ldt = ld.atStartOfDay();
And then, to a ZonedDateTime. Here' I've assumed UTC
//ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.systemDefault();
//ZonedDateTime zdt = ldt.atZone(zoneId);
OffsetDateTime zdt = ldt.atOffset(ZoneOffset.UTC);
And finally, format the result to your desired format
String formatted = zdt.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME);
System.out.println(formatted);
Which, for me, prints...
2021-06-07T00:00:00Z
A lot of time and effort has gone into the new Date/Time APIs and you should make the time to try and learn them as best you can (I'm pretty rusty, but with a little tinkering, got to a result)
Maybe start with Date/Time trails

A solution use Calendar, Date and SimpleDateFormat
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, MM/dd", Locale.getDefault());
try {
Date oldDate = sdf.parse("Mon, 06/07");
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
int savedYear = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);
if (oldDate != null) {
calendar.setTime(oldDate);
calendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, savedYear);
sdf.applyPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T00:00:00Z'");
System.out.println(sdf.format(calendar.getTime()));
}
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

String date into Epoch time

I am little bit confused in dates. I am currently working on the weather app and everything works fine .. I just wanna handle this type of format into my own desirable format.
2017-09-10T18:35:00+05:00
I just wanna convert this date into Epoch Time and then I settle the date in my desire format ::
for J-SON
or i wanna convert this date into less figure i.e Sun , 9 september 9:23 Am etc.
http://dataservice.accuweather.com/currentconditions/v1/257072?apikey=JTgPZ8wN9VUy07GaOODeZfZ3sAM12irH&language=en-us&details=true

ThreeTenABP
The other answers are correct, but outdated before they were written. These days I recommend you use the modern Java date and time API known as JSR-310 or java.time. Your date-time string format is ISO 8601, which the modern classes “understand” as their default.
Can you use the modern API on Android yet? Most certainly! The JSR-310 classes have been backported to Android in the ThreeTenABP project. All the details are in this question: How to use ThreeTenABP in Android Project.
long epochTime = OffsetDateTime.parse("2017-09-10T18:35:00+05:00")
.toInstant()
.getEpochSecond();
The result is 1505050500.
Edit: Arvind Kumar Avinash correctly points out in a comment: You do not need to convert an OffsetDateTime to an Instant to get the epoch seconds. You can simply use OffsetDateTime#toEpochSecond.
Example of how to convert this into a human-readable date and time:
String formattedDateTime = Instant.ofEpochSecond(epochTime)
.atZone(ZoneId.of("Africa/Lusaka"))
.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EEE, d MMMM h:mm a", Locale.ENGLISH));
This produces Sun, 10 September 3:35 PM. Please provide the correct region and city for the time zone ID you want. If you want to rely on the device’s time zone setting, use ZoneId.systemDefault(). See the documentation of DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern() for the letters you may use in the format pattern string, or use DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDateTime() for one of your locale’s default formats.

Use a SimpleDateFormat instance to parse the string into a Date object:
DateFormat parser = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX");
Date date = parser.parse("2017-09-10T18:35:00+05:00");
And then use another SimpleDateFormat to display it:
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMMMM h:mm a");
String formatted = format.format(date); // Sun, 10 September 1:35 PM

You can use SimpleDate formatter to parse you date as string into epoch
String input = "2017-09-10T18:35:00+05:00";
SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");
try {
Date date = sf.parse(input);
long dateInEpochFormatInMilliSeconds = date.getTime();
//if you want this in seconds then
long dateInEpochFormatInSeconds = date.getTime()/1000L;
//if you want to show only date month and year then
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
String date = sdf.format(dateInEpochFormatInMilliSeconds);
//This date String will contain the date in dd-MM-yyyy format
} catch (ParseException| ArithmeticException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

String time_at_which_weather_capture = "Time : ";
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE,d M yyyy h:MM a");
long timeInMillieSec = 0 ;
try {
Date date = dateFormat.parse(readyToUpdate.getTime());
timeInMillieSec = date.getTime();
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
time.setText(time_at_which_weather_capture + String.valueOf(time_fetcher(timeInMillieSec)));
public String time_fetcher (long time_coming_to_its_original_form) {
Date date = new Date (time_coming_to_its_original_form);
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d M yyyy h:MM a");
return sdf.format(date);
}

How to format Joda-Time DateTime to only mm/dd/yyyy?

I have a string "11/15/2013 08:00:00", I want to format it to "11/15/2013", what is the correct DateTimeFormatter pattern?
I've tried many and googled and still unable to find the correct pattern.
edit: I am looking for Joda-Time DateTimeFormatter, not Java's SimpleDateFormat..

Note that in JAVA SE 8 a new java.time (JSR-310) package was introduced. This replaces Joda time, Joda users are advised to migrate. For the JAVA SE ≥ 8 way of formatting date and time, see below.
Joda time
Create a DateTimeFormatter using DateTimeFormat.forPattern(String)
Using Joda time you would do it like this:
String dateTime = "11/15/2013 08:00:00";
// Format for input
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
// Parsing the date
DateTime jodatime = dtf.parseDateTime(dateTime);
// Format for output
DateTimeFormatter dtfOut = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("MM/dd/yyyy");
// Printing the date
System.out.println(dtfOut.print(jodatime));
Standard Java ≥ 8
Java 8 introduced a new Date and Time library, making it easier to deal with dates and times. If you want to use standard Java version 8 or beyond, you would use a DateTimeFormatter. Since you don't have a time zone in your String, a java.time.LocalDateTime or a LocalDate, otherwise the time zoned varieties ZonedDateTime and ZonedDate could be used.
// Format for input
DateTimeFormatter inputFormat = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
// Parsing the date
LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(dateTime, inputFormat);
// Format for output
DateTimeFormatter outputFormat = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM/dd/yyyy");
// Printing the date
System.out.println(date.format(outputFormat));
Standard Java < 8
Before Java 8, you would use the a SimpleDateFormat and java.util.Date
String dateTime = "11/15/2013 08:00:00";
// Format for input
SimpleDateFormat dateParser = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
// Parsing the date
Date date7 = dateParser.parse(dateTime);
// Format for output
SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
// Printing the date
System.out.println(dateFormatter.format(date7));

I am adding this here even though the other answers are completely acceptable. JodaTime has parsers pre built in DateTimeFormat:
dateTime.toString(DateTimeFormat.longDate());
This is most of the options printed out with their format:
shortDate: 11/3/16
shortDateTime: 11/3/16 4:25 AM
mediumDate: Nov 3, 2016
mediumDateTime: Nov 3, 2016 4:25:35 AM
longDate: November 3, 2016
longDateTime: November 3, 2016 4:25:35 AM MDT
fullDate: Thursday, November 3, 2016
fullDateTime: Thursday, November 3, 2016 4:25:35 AM Mountain Daylight Time

DateTime date = DateTime.now().withTimeAtStartOfDay();
date.toString("HH:mm:ss")

I think this will work, if you are using JodaTime:
String strDateTime = "11/15/2013 08:00:00";
DateTime dateTime = DateTime.parse(strDateTime);
DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("MM/dd/YYYY");
String strDateOnly = fmt.print(dateTime);
I got part of this from here.

I have a very dumb but working option.
if you have the String fullDate = "11/15/2013 08:00:00";
String finalDate = fullDate.split(" ")[0];
That should work easy and fast. :)

Please try to this one
public void Method(Datetime time)
{
time.toString("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"));
}

UPDATED:
You can: create a constant:
private static final DateTimeFormatter DATE_FORMATTER_YYYY_MM_DD =
DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd"); // or whatever pattern that you need.
This DateTimeFormat is importing from: (be careful with that)
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
Parse the Date with:
DateTime.parse(dateTimeScheduled.toString(), DATE_FORMATTER_YYYY_MM_DD);
Before:
DateTime.parse("201711201515",DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyyMMddHHmm")).toString("yyyyMMdd");
if want datetime:
DateTime.parse("201711201515", DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyyMMddHHmm")).withTimeAtStartOfDay();

This works
String x = "22/06/2012";
String y = "25/10/2014";
String datestart = x;
String datestop = y;
//DateTimeFormatter format = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd/mm/yyyy");
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/mm/yyyy");
Date d1 = null;
Date d2 = null;
try {
d1 = format.parse(datestart);
d2 = format.parse(datestop);
DateTime dt1 = new DateTime(d1);
DateTime dt2 = new DateTime(d2);
//Period
period = new Period (dt1,dt2);
//calculate days
int days = Days.daysBetween(dt1, dt2).getDays();
} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}

Another way of doing that is:
String date = dateAndTime.substring(0, dateAndTime.indexOf(" "));
I'm not exactly certain, but I think this might be faster/use less memory than using the .split() method.

easiest way:
DateTime date = new DateTime();
System.out.println(date.toString(DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-mm-dd")));

Change date format in a Java string

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");