converting date strings

You'll need one (Simple)DateFormat to parse input string following input format and obtain a Date instance.

Then another (Simple)DateFormat for formatting this Date given the expected output format.

Looks like your parser pattern will be:"dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss"

and your formatter pattern will be:"yyyy-dd-MM"

TimTheEnchantora at 2007-7-14 1:17:49 >

thanks TimTheEnchantor, that worked fine.

Here's the code in case someone else needs it:

String date="05/11/2003 15:22:19";

Date convDate;

SimpleDateFormat formatterIn;

SimpleDateFormat formatterOut;

try {

formatterIn = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss");

convDate=formatterIn.parse(date);

formatterOut = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-dd-MM");

date=formatterOut.format(convDate);

} catch (Exception e) {

date = "";

}

OniShiroa at 2007-7-14 1:17:49 >