How to get a Date object from String

Question

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy' 'HH:mm:ss");
Date d = (Date)formatter.parse(dateTime);
System.out.println("date in controller "+d);

I get the output as

date in controller Mon Dec 31 16:04:57 IST 2012

Please suggest a method to output the date in MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss format. Need the output in date format and not as string so as to store the output in datetime field in mysql db

Answer 1

Need the output in date format and not as string so as to store the output in datetime field in mysql db

After the statement

Date d = (Date)formatter.parse(dateTime);
java.sql.Date sqldate = new java.sql.Date(d.getTime())

you have got a java.util.Date object and you can store it as it is in mysql DB (column type : datetime).

However, when you are printing d, it defaults to the .toString() implementation. I think you expected some output like Date@ but the toString printed in user readable format thats why the confusion.