How to convert String of datetime to date using GWT?

Question

In mysql, i have a field time_entered of type datetime (sample data: 2012-06-20 16:00:47). I also have a method, getTimeEntered(), that returns the value as String. I want to display the date in this format 2012-06-20 using DateTimeFormat from GWT.

here's my code:

String date = aprHeaderDW.getTimeEntered();
DateTimeFormat fmt = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
dateEntered.setText("" + fmt.format(date));

The problem is, the format method doesn't accept arguments as String. So if there's only a way I could convert the date from String to Date type, it could probably work. I tried typecasting but didn't work.

Answer 1

You should be able to just use DateTimeFormat.

Date date = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").parse("2012-06-20 16:00:47");
String dateString = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(date);

Otherwise there is a light-weight version of SimpleDateFormat that supports this pattern.

Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").parse("2012-06-20 16:00:47");