String string = "January 2, 2010";
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(string);
System.out.println(date); // Sat Jan 02 00:00:00 BOT 2010
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
String newDateString = df.format(date);
| Date and Time Pattern
| Result
|
"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.SSSZ"
| 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
|
| Letter
| Date or Time Component
| Presentation
| Examples
|
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
|
