Java SimpleDateFormat formatting Symbols

Introduction

The following table is the List of Formatting Symbols for Formatting Date and Time

Letter
 Date or Time Component
 Presentation
 Examples
G
 Era designator
 Text
 AD
y
 Year
 Year
 2018; 03
Y
 Week-based year
 Year
 2018; 03
M
 Month in year
 Month
 March; Mar; 03
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 in week
 Text
 Tuesday; Tue
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
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Date birthDate = new Date();

    // Create the pattern. You must place literals inside single quotes
    String pattern = "'date is' dd 'of the month' MMMM 'in' yyyy";

    // Create simple date format
    SimpleDateFormat simpleFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);

    // Print the date
    System.out.println(simpleFormatter.format(birthDate));

  }//from w w w  .  ja v  a 2 s .  c om
}

import java.text.Format;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
    Format formatter;//  w ww  .ja  va2s.  c  o m

    // The year
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yy"); // 02
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy"); // 2002

    // The month
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("M"); // 1
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM"); // 01
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM"); // Jan
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM"); // January

    // The day
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("d"); // 9
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd"); // 09

    // The day in week
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("E"); // Wed
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE"); // Wednesday

    // The hour (1-12)
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("h"); // 8
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("hh"); // 08

    // The hour (0-23)
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("H"); // 8
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("HH"); // 08

    // The minutes
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("m"); // 7
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("mm"); // 07

    // The seconds
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("s"); // 3
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("ss"); // 03

    // The am/pm marker
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("a"); // AM

    // The time zone
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("z"); // PST
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("zzzz"); // Pacific Standard Time
    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("Z"); // -0800
  }

}



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