How to convert "Mon Jun 18 00:00:00 IST 2012" to 18/06/2012?

Question

I have a value like the following Mon Jun 18 00:00:00 IST 2012 and I want to convert this to 18/06/2012

How to convert this?

I tried this method

public String toDate(Date date) {         SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");         Date theDate = null;         //String in = date + "/" + month + "/" + year;         try {             theDate = dateFormat.parse(date.toString());             System.out.println("Date parsed = " + dateFormat.format(theDate));         } catch (ParseException e) {             e.printStackTrace();         }         return dateFormat.format(theDate);     } 

but it throws following exception :

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Mon Jun 18 00:00:00 IST 2012"

Answer 1

I hope following program will solve your problem

String dateStr = "Mon Jun 18 00:00:00 IST 2012"; DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("E MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy"); Date date = (Date)formatter.parse(dateStr); System.out.println(date);          Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); cal.setTime(date); String formatedDate = cal.get(Calendar.DATE) + "/" + (cal.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1) + "/" +         cal.get(Calendar.YEAR); System.out.println("formatedDate : " + formatedDate);