Change date format in a Java string
Use LocalDateTime#parse() (or ZonedDateTime#parse() if the string happens to contain a time zone part) to parse a String in a certain pattern into a LocalDateTime. String oldstring = “2011-01-18 00:00:00.0”; LocalDateTime datetime = LocalDateTime.parse(oldstring, DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(“yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S”)); Use LocalDateTime#format() (or ZonedDateTime#format()) to format a LocalDateTime into a String in a certain pattern. String newstring = datetime.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(“yyyy-MM-dd”)); System.out.println(newstring); // 2011-01-18 Or, when you’re not on Java 8 yet, use SimpleDateFormat#parse() to parse a String in … Read more
