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1. How Would You Programmatically Create a Pattern from a Date that is Stored in a String?    stackoverflow.com

I have a string that contains the representation of a date. It looks like: Thu Nov 30 19:00:00 EST 2006 I'm trying to create a Date object using SimpleDateFormat and have 2 ...

2. A non-deprecated exact equivalent of Date(String s) in Java?    stackoverflow.com

I have old code that uses new Date(dateString) to parse a date string. Compiling the code produces the deprecation warning Date(java.lang.String) in java.util.Date has been deprecated. The javadoc unhelpfully advises me to ...

3. Java String to Date without time    stackoverflow.com

I'm taking a class in Java and I need to convert a string to a date format (dd/MM/yyyy). I have been using the SimpleDateFormat to format my input, but it is ...

4. String to Date in Java    stackoverflow.com

HI, I am converting String to Date format. But it returns wrong dates. for example,

String startDate = "08-05-2010"; //  (MM/dd/yyyy)
I want to convert this to "Date" object like this, ...

5. How to change string to date in Java    stackoverflow.com

i need to to convert an string to date format in java i have an string that i get from torrent file

the string is like 1278622088 

6. Recognise an arbitrary date string    stackoverflow.com

I need to be able to recognise date strings. It doesn't matter if I can not distinguish between month and date (e.g. 12/12/10), I just need to classify the string as ...

7. Extracting dates from text in Java    stackoverflow.com

Is it possible to extract dates from a string in Java? I have 500+ string with different data. In them, there can be:
"... period from 08.23.2011 - 09.05.2011..."
and also:
"...period ends 06.09.2011...". It's not ...

8. Cast string to date Java    stackoverflow.com

Any ideas why this isnt working?

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/mm/yyyy");
    Date date1 = null, date2 = null;
    String start, finish;
    System.out.println("Please enter ...

9. if(objValue instanceof Date) objValue store string its work or not?    stackoverflow.com

Object objValue = null;
objValue = mapAcctProfParam.get(strKey).toString();
if(objValue instanceof Date){
     objValue = DateUtilities.stringFromDate(new Date(((Date)objValue).getTime()),
                ...





10. in java,how to get the string(date)from log message    stackoverflow.com

i want to get the date from the log message.ie,in log message, i am having different type of date formats. for ex,

Sample1.txt --- Jun 17 09:28:53 Sample sentences for this example
Sample2.txt --- ...

11. how to make Json lib generate such string: \/Date(1317375052044)\/    stackoverflow.com

My target is to generate such json string: {"EndTime": "\/Date(1309737600000)\/"} I define a HashMap to generate the string If I define the string value as "\\/Date(1317375052044)\\/" then the result is "\\\\/Date(1317375052044)\\\\/". If I define ...

13. Getting a Date from an string "mm/dd/yyyy'    coderanch.com

I would try that code seqenze below. Perhaps you've got to change the dateformat "dd.MM.yyyy" -> "dd/MM/yyyy", but it should work. code: private java.util.Date string2date(java.lang.String fieldName, java.lang.String dateString) throws java.text.ParseException { private java.text.DateFormat DEFAULT_DATE_FORMAT = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy"); if (!(dateString == null || dateString.trim().length() == 0)) { return DEFAULT_DATE_FORMAT.parse(dateString.trim()); } return null; } [ October 19, 2004: Message edited by: Kip Dekan ...

14. How to Reformat a date string    coderanch.com

15. string to date    coderanch.com

public Date stringToDate(String d){ try { int mm , dd , yy ; dd = val_int(d.substring(0,2)); mm = val_int(d.substring(3,5)) - 1 ; //jan is 0 yy = val_int(d.substring(6,10))- 1900 ; //0 is 1900 //System.out.println(dd+"-"+mm+"-"+yy); Date dt = new Date(yy,mm,dd); return(dt); } catch (Exception e){ System.out.println("Error -->"+e+"<--"); promptBox("Error : Invalid Date !!! "); return (new Date(00,01,01)); } }

16. Create a Date object from String    coderanch.com

Chris, You can use the SimpleDateFormat class to transform a Date into a formatted string that should be acceptable to mySQL. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html Here is an example: public String paintSystemTimeStamp(){ String timestamp = ""; String dateformat = "MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss a z"; timestamp = (new SimpleDateFormat(dateformat)).format(new Date()); return timestamp; } If this were for an Oracle db, you might use the to_date SQL ...





17. String to Date...    coderanch.com

Hi I have String "Mon, Dec 12 2005". I need to convert this in Date Object ... as soon as I Convert it into Date it is something like "Mon Dec 12 00:00:00 GMT+05:30 2005" I don't want this "hh:mm:ss z" to be there at all. I'm using SimpleDateFormate for my purpose ... the code is some thing like this import ...

18. String to Date    coderanch.com

19. Coverting from String to Date.    coderanch.com

Hmm, right, you do seem to have a very special format. Can't you format the date differently when getting it from the DB? And why are you not getting a Date-object straight from the DB? Anyways. Besides wondering why you have such a strange format coming out of your DB, I wrote a little bit of code parsing your date. It's ...

20. turn string date to number date    coderanch.com

does anyone know of any classes that i could use to turn a String date into its number equivalent? i need to split a string "20 Apr, 2007" into day month year, so this would return: day = 20 month = 4, year = 2007 iv used a mixture of split() and parseInt() to get the day and year, but im ...

21. Covert String to Date    coderanch.com

I get the date from the database table in VARCHAR format someting like "20070201" where it's in "yyyymmdd" format and I need to display it in "dd-Mon-yyyy" format. Is there a simple function to convert it to java.util.Date format. I have written a java function to do this but wanted to check if this can be achieved in simple steps. Thanks ...

22. Using Patterns for Date String    coderanch.com

Hi all i need some suggestions in woking with pattern/matcher classes for dates.What i am doing is giving an input date as "24 Feb 2002".My output should be displayed as :- //d+//s//w+//d{4},//d+//s//w+//d+ etc (that is all possible combination which if i give as the argument to Pattern.matcher() and using the matcher class,output is the date "24 Feb 2002" )ie i am ...

23. Casting a String object into a Date ...    coderanch.com

Hi, I have this strange case! I have a String object which i want to cast into a Date object. I'm doing the following: java.util.Date.cast(theStringObject); But this is throwing a a ClassCastException. Can you please tell me how to do that ? Note: I know i can use APIs, but what i'm trying to do is solving it in a very ...

24. Date problems - Strings and math    coderanch.com

Good day all I'm using the Sun JDK1.3.0_02 on Windows 2000. I need to: 1) get the current date in the format dd/mm/yyyy (call this the deal_date) 2) add 30 days to the above (call the result expiry_date) 3) convert both deal_date and expiry_date to Strings 4) when calling expiry_date from a database, compare it to the current (system) date to ...

25. Check the String for a Date OR Number    coderanch.com

26. String[] : cut a Date every "/"    coderanch.com

27. Getting a Date from a String    coderanch.com

Great sev and Dirk, that was very helpful! Just one more thing: The following code produces this output: Sat Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2004 Any idea how I could get rid of the "00:00:00 EDT"? import java.util.*; import java.text.*; class TrivialApplication { public static void main(String args[]) { String aDate = "04-10-04"; try { Date bDate; bDate = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yy").parse(aDate); System.out.println(bDate); ...

28. using Date from/to String    coderanch.com

Hello, i'm trying to get an input from my web application of time and date as Strings and connect them to one Date object and the reverse action form the DB as Date object to two Strings of date and time and i don't understand clearly how to do it in a specific format and if i can translate the time ...

29. Suggestions to exact variable length dates out of a string?    coderanch.com

You can use a regular expression to parse the String: String target = "Data Released September 11, 2006 at 10:30 A.M., For the Week Ending September 05, 2006"; //Create and compile regex String regex = "Data Released (.*) at (.*), For the Week Ending (.*)"; Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex); //Create Matcher object from pattern and target String Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(target); ...

30. awkward date string    coderanch.com

How exactly are you trying to parse the date string? I wrote the following simple example and it works without problems. (Not using Joda time, just the JDK classes). import java.text.DateFormat; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException { DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d yyyy"); String a = "Feb 9 ...

31. String to Date?    coderanch.com

32. How to change a date from a String?    coderanch.com

33. String to Date - JDK 1.4.2    coderanch.com

I've always hated date manipulation. I have a list of objects all of which contain a string in the following format: yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm e.g. 2007/10/03 10:12 I'm looping through the list (no problem there) and plan on comparing each date to todays date to determine the oldest item in the list. My question is - How do I convert this string ...

34. String to Date Convertion with JDK 1.4.2 and JDK 5.0    coderanch.com

Hi there, I have the following problem with converting a String to a Date. While my code segment worked just fine with jdk 1.4.2 I have problems migrating this code to jdk 5.0. Here is the code which worked just fine with jdk 1.4.2: private static Date convertStringToDate(String text) throws ParseException { SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ"); simpleDateFormat.setLenient(false); Date date = ...

35. date to string    coderanch.com

36. How toconvert a String into date Object    coderanch.com

37. dates, strings, and confusion    coderanch.com

Adam Confino wrote: So the concept is that you would take two strings (one would be user input, one is data in the model\database), convert them to dates using SimpleDateFormat, and then comparing the date objects to each other?? That is probably how I would go about it. The key is you need to compare apples to apples. So you either ...

38. Making String to java.util.Date    coderanch.com

I am getting date from HTML form i.e. String days=req.getParameter("days"); String months=req.getParameter("months"); String year=req.getParameter("year"); String job_start=days+"-"+months+"-"+year; String job_end=days1+"-"+months1+"-"+year1; How can I convert and compare with todays date? My Code: ========= String query5="select sysdate from dual"; PreparedStatement ps5=cnn.prepareStatement(query5); rs=ps5.executeQuery(); if(rs.next()){ java.util.Date today_date=rs.getDate(1); if(job_start.after(today_date)){ //option }else{ //option } What I did is; certainly its wrong aproach as: 1. I am trying to write ...

39. From MMddyyy String to Date    coderanch.com

40. how to get the date from the string representation of date    coderanch.com

import java.text.ParsePosition; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; public class MainClass { public static void main(String[] a) { SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); String input[] = { "2013-10-01 Vancouver, B.C.", "1248-03-01 Ottawa, ON", "1323-06-06 Toronto, ON" }; for (int i = 0; i < input.length; i++) { ParsePosition pp = new ParsePosition(0); Date d = formatter.parse(input[i], pp); if (d == null) { System.err.println("Invalid ...

41. Dates as String    coderanch.com

42. how to covert string to date object?.    coderanch.com

43. JSpinner date model to string    forums.oracle.com

Lukasz_1981 wrote: I want to get date format like this: "yyyy-mm-dd" from JSpinner but I get something like this "Aug 16 15:02 CET 2008" Is there any possiblity to format this String or to get date model in the way I like to? The SpinnerDateModel method getValue() returns an Object which is actually a Date object. As you probably know, with ...

44. String date to integer    forums.oracle.com

Need help. Does anybody know how to convert a string date to int.. format of the date is like this(dd-mm-yyyy) example ->15-Aug-1993. I would like to convert the corresponding month to int... like for Jan=1, Feb=2,Mar=3...Aug=8...Dec=12... is there any method in java which supports this kind of conversion? sample codes would be of great help. Thanks in advance.

45. from string to date    forums.oracle.com

public class date{ /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub String strTmp = "09/21/08"; Date dtTmp = null; try { dtTmp = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy").parse(strTmp); System.out.println(dtTmp); } catch (ParseException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } String strOutDt = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy").format(dtTmp); System.out.println(strOutDt);

46. Given String Date is valid/not?    forums.oracle.com

Hi Friends, I am getting date in string format e.g. String creationDate = "2007/02/30"; I want to check is valid or not. see in the example I have given 30 Feb 2007 which is invalid date. Is there any way to check the date is valid or not. Any help will be appreciable for me. Thanks in advance... - Hiren Modi ...

47. Date to String    forums.oracle.com

Hello. I'm new at Java and need some help. I'm just wanting what is wrong with my code. I want the main date to return as a string so I can use it in the other part of my program. public static String displayDate(WinPlotter plotter, int penRedComponent, int penGreenCompoonent, int penBlueCompoonent){ Date today; String dateStr; SimpleDateFormat yay; today = new Date(); ...

48. Get a date from a string.    forums.oracle.com

The user is always going to have to input a date with some sort of formatting. It sounds like you are letting them enter it into a free text field. So what if they enter 01-02-2007? Some better options might be to use a calendar widgit and let the user pick a date. Or an easier option may be to give ...

49. Converstion from String to Date    forums.oracle.com

It's my first and second thought. The original poster never showed us the code that didn't work for him. It would have taken a whole two lines. When will people learn that the best way to get help is to post a short example program demonstrating their problem? I mean, it's not rocket science. Isn't it obvious that, instead of writing ...

50. How to cast a String input into Date variable?    forums.oracle.com

I am using JOptionPane.showInputDialog to ask user for a date input. This will be read in as a String. I need to pass it to a variable call date. And when I print date using JOptionPane, it should be shown as whatever the user keyed in in this format: 25/2/09. How do I do it?

51. String to Date problems    forums.oracle.com

1.) A Date object doesn't have any format. It simply contains the data. How you print it is entirely up to you 2.) You ignore the return-value of format.format() which is a String containing the formatted date 3.) You print the Date object itself which simply calls toString() which results in the hard-coded format that you see 4.) If you want ...

52. How to check whether a string is a date    forums.oracle.com

If you really meant what you wrote, The short answer is "you can't". At least with anything approaching reliability. You really need to re-think what you are doing. Saying that the "date string" can be in any format make it almost impossible to do "correctly". Given a bunch of formats, a single string may represent any number of dates, the hard ...

53. String to Date Convertion    forums.oracle.com

54. Unable to create Date from String    forums.oracle.com

I want to convert a string to a Date object. Here's my code String ds = "20080101"; DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(); try { Date d = df.parse(ds); } catch(ParseException e) { System.out.println("Unable to parse " + ds); } I got the java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "20080101" error. Do you have any ideas? Thanks

55. Date to String    forums.oracle.com

56. Casting String to Date value    forums.oracle.com

Indeed. To convert String to Date, use [SimpleDateFormat#parse()|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html]. Please note that you end up with java.util.Date, not with java.sql.Date. You shouldn't use java.sql.Date anywhere outside the database logic. That said, there is no means of casting here. Casting is roughly said just a "conversion" between a class and its sub- or superclass. String and Date are in no way sub/superclass of ...

57. String to date    forums.oracle.com

58. Ordering string dates    forums.oracle.com

There is an easy way to hget the date from the nbumbers in format MM/DD/YYYY for example 11021999 divide the whole number by 10000, then subract the result from the initial value. so with the number 11021999 ull get 11021999 / 10000 = 11020000 then subractuion: 11021999 - 11020000 = 1999 (the year) i dotn know if thats exactly the format ...

59. String date and time to Date    forums.oracle.com

Hello Java Users. I have 2 strings String str1 = "06/19/2008"; String str2 ="22:00:05"; I want to combine this and convert it into a date. So that the date is 06/19/2008 22:00:05. Basic idea is ... I have 2 strings which I got from a web form. And I want to store it in the database. So the user has entered ...

60. cast String date to Date date    forums.oracle.com

When you print a Date its toString() method is called - this has the standard output format that you show. If you want to print the date in some othre format (say yyyy-mm-dd for example), then you need to convert it back to a String using the formatter functionality of SimpleDateFormat - you can even use the same SimpleDateFormat that you ...

61. trying to conver string to date...help plzzzz    forums.oracle.com

hi, i am trying to insert a date value into a dbtable ..but i canot convert string(from a text box) variable to date..i can insert a date value if i am giving it directly into the insert query..i used the following code <%@ page language="java" import="java.sql.*,java.text.SimpleDateFormat" %> <% SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy"); String s=request.getParameter("dateofbirth"); Date myDate = dateFormat.parse(s); ...

62. String object to Date object    forums.oracle.com

63. Setting compile date & time to a Java String variable    forums.oracle.com

I was wondering does the NetBeans IDE have a capability to grab the current compile date & time and set it to a Java String, updating it at each compile. I know you can set is in a template, but isn't that fixed once forever when the file is created. Just wondering.

64. String to Date : java.text.ParseException    forums.oracle.com

65. string to date... wouldnt work... :'(    forums.oracle.com

66. Date string problems    forums.oracle.com

67. problem in parseing string to date obj    forums.oracle.com

client provides a string which sud be converted to Date object so dat data cud be fetch from database so i want to convert it into date object by using format() it will convert it into string i dont want the day to be the part of output the out put sud be in dd-mm-yyyy HH:MM:ss.sss format Message was edited by: ...

68. Problem changing from a String to a Date.    forums.oracle.com

java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.Date cannot be cast to java.sql.Date at Database.data(Database.java:41) at TestBookingSheet.save(TestBookingSheet.java:400) at TestBookingSheet.actionPerformed(TestBookingSheet.java:422) at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Unknown Source) at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) ...

69. How to get a date using a String.    forums.oracle.com

Hello! I've got this code: Calendar s=null; String dateStr1=s.getInstance().getTime().toString()); String dateStr2=s.getInstance().getTime().toString()); I can't save these two dates in Date form, but only as Strings because it must be this way for my reasons. I then want to compare the initial Dates. Is there any way to get the two Dates using these two Strings? I found Date myDate1=new Date(String s); but ...

70. String to Date?    forums.oracle.com

71. hoe to pass String to Date object    forums.oracle.com

72. conver string into date    forums.oracle.com

73. Get date from string date???    forums.oracle.com