Below code in the text area demonstrates us to retrieve Dates in different formats once they have set

This is a simple running program, please run on your machine and observe the formatting of dates

import java.io.Serializable; import java.text.DateFormat; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; /** * Working with dates is more complicated but this example will tell us more information on * how to work on different date formats */ /** * @author Darur Venugopal * Retrieving date in required format like */ public class Date_Format_Java_yyyymmddhhmm extends Date implements Serializable{ //Defin format private final static DateFormat yyyymmdd = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd "); //define Format private final static DateFormat yyyymmddhhMMss = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss"); //process and return required format public String getdateFormatmmddyyyy() { return yyyymmdd.format(this); } /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { //Step no 1 initialize some date // retrieve in different format DateFormatDemo dateFormats = new DateFormatDemo(); try { dateFormats.setTime(yyyymmddhhMMss.parse("20090206105100").getTime()); } catch (ParseException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } //retrieve in HHmmss format System.out.println( dateFormats.getHHmmssString()); //retrieve in yyyymmddformat Date_Format_Java_yyyymmddhhmm format = new Date_Format_Java_yyyymmddhhmm(); System.out.println(format.getdateFormatmmddyyyy()); } }