Date Parsing and Formatting with DateFormat : Date Format « Data Type « Java Tutorial






  1. DateFormat supports styles or patterns.
  2. There are four styles you can format a Date object to.
  3. Each style is represented by an int value.
  4. The four int fields that represent the styles are:
ValueExample
DateFormat.SHORT.For example, 12/2/05
DateFormat.MEDIUM.For example, Dec 2, 2005.
DateFormat.LONG.For example, December 2, 2005
DateFormat.FULL.For example, Friday, December 2, 2005


import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.util.Date;

public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    DateFormat shortDf = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT);

    DateFormat mediumDf = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM);
    DateFormat longDf = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG);
    DateFormat fullDf = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.FULL);
    System.out.println(shortDf.format(new Date()));
    System.out.println(mediumDf.format(new Date()));
    System.out.println(longDf.format(new Date()));
    System.out.println(fullDf.format(new Date()));

    // parsing
    try {
      Date date = shortDf.parse("12/12/2006");
    } catch (ParseException e) {
    }
  }
}
1/26/07
Jan 26, 2007
January 26, 2007
Friday, January 26, 2007








2.41.Date Format
2.41.1.Date Parsing and Formatting with DateFormat
2.41.2.Parsing the Time Using a Custom Format
2.41.3.Parse with a custom format
2.41.4.Parse with a default format
2.41.5.Parse string date value input with SimpleDateFormat('dd-MMM-yy')
2.41.6.Parse a date and time
2.41.7.Parse string date value input with SimpleDateFormat('E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z')
2.41.8.Parse string date value with default format: DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.DEFAULT)
2.41.9.Leniency
2.41.10.Formatting String Symbols for SimpleDateFormat
2.41.11.SimpleDateFormat: hh:mm:ss, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss zzz, E MMM dd yyyy
2.41.12.Simply format a date as YYYYMMDD
2.41.13.Express a duration in term of HH:MM:SS
2.41.14.Date Format with SimpleDateFormat
2.41.15.Demonstrate date formats with different DateFormat constants
2.41.16.Demonstrate time formats.
2.41.17.DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.FULL,DateFormat.MEDIUM)
2.41.18.print out the current date and time
2.41.19.Date Era change
2.41.20.Format Date with System.out.format
2.41.21.SimpleDateFormat
2.41.22.Formatting Dates and Times
2.41.23.Four different date formats for four countries: US, UK, GERMANY, FRANCE
2.41.24.Various Date formatVarious Date format
2.41.25.Display date with day name in a short format
2.41.26.Display date with a short day and month name
2.41.27.Format a date into dd/mm/yyyy
2.41.28.Format current date and time with the SimpleDateFormat: dd/MM/yyyy
2.41.29.Format current date and time with the SimpleDateFormat: HH:mm:ss
2.41.30.Formatting Symbols for SimpleDateFormat
2.41.31.Formatting the Time Using a Custom Format
2.41.32.Change date formatting symbols
2.41.33.Get a List of Short Month Names
2.41.34.Get a List of Weekday Names
2.41.35.Get a List of Short Weekday Names
2.41.36.Time in 12-hour format
2.41.37.Time in 24-hour format
2.41.38.Date and time with month
2.41.39.Date and time with day and month fully spelled-out
2.41.40.Output current time: %tc
2.41.41.Formatter that caches formatted date information
2.41.42.RFC date format
2.41.43.A formatter that formats dates to show the elapsed time relative to some base date.