I am facing an error trying to parse dates with this format:
26-March-2001 15-August-2001
I am using the next code:
private void parseDate(String firstDate) {
Date fDate = null;
try {
fDate = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy").parse(firstDate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
But I am getting the error message: Unparseable date: "15-August-2001". I am not pretty sure what date format I have to use.
Thanks
LocalDate
.parse(
"15-August-2001" ,
DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( "dd-MMMM-uuuu" , Locale.US )
)
.toString()
Tip: Better to exchange date-time data textually using only the standard ISO 8601 formats.
The Answer by Deadpool, while technically correct, is outdated. The modern approach uses the java.time classes that supplanted the legacy date-time classes with the adoption of JSR 310.
LocalDateThe LocalDate class represents a date-only value without time-of-day and without time zone or offset-from-UTC.
DateTimeFormatterDefine a custom formatting pattern with DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern. The formatting codes are not entirely the same as with the legacy SimpleDateFormat class, so be sure to study the Javadoc carefully.
Specify a Locale to determine the human language to use in translating the name of the month.
String input = "15-August-2001" ;
DateTimeFormatter f = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( "dd-MMMM-uuuu" , Locale.US ) ;
LocalDate ld = LocalDate.parse( input , f ) ;
System.out.println( "ld.toString(): " + ld ) ;
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ld.toString(): 2001-08-15
Use Locale.US so that it considers the month names in US format
SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy",Locale.US)
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java.util.Date,java.util.Calendar, andjava.text.SimpleDateFormatare now legacy, supplanted by the java.time classes built into Java 8 and later. See Tutorial by Oracle.