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Basic Date Formatting
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Basic Date Formatting
 Basic Date Formatting
Let us see an example for Basic Date
Formatting.
package com.ack.j2se.date;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
Contd

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public class BasicDateFormatting {
public static void main( String[] args ) throws
Exception {
// get today's date
Date today = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
// create a short version date formatter
DateFormat shortFormatter
=
SimpleDateFormat.getDateInstance( SimpleDate
Format.SHORT );

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// create a long version date formatter
DateFormat longFormatter
=
SimpleDateFormat.getDateInstance( SimpleDateFormat.LON
G );
 
// create date time formatter, medium for day, long for
time
DateFormat mediumFormatter
=
SimpleDateFormat.getDateTimeInstance( SimpleDateFormat.
MEDIUM,
SimpleDateFormat.LONG );

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// use the formatters to output the dates

System.out.println( shortFormatter.format( to
day ) );

System.out.println( longFormatter.format( tod

ay ) );

System.out.println( mediumFormatter.format(
today ) );

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// convert form date -> text, and text ->
date
String dateAsText =
shortFormatter.format( today );
Date textAsDate =
shortFormatter.parse( dateAsText );
System.out.println( textAsDate );
}
}

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Basic Date Formatting
 Here in the above coding we can see that the
program is used to fetch date. Date formats
are of four types, Short, Medium, Long and
Full. The above functions are used to call the
date and date & time formats as well.

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Basic Date Formatting
// get today's date
Date today =
Calendar.getInstance().getTime(); initializes
the date function. And the following line
// create a short version date formatter
DateFormat shortFormatter

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 This and the following lines of code are
written to include the different date and date
time formats. The various date and date time
formats are:

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Basic Date Formatting
 SHORT is completely numeric, such as
12.13.52 or 3:30pm
 MEDIUM is longer, such as Jan 12, 1952
 LONG is longer, such as January 12, 1952 or

3:30:32pm
 FULL is pretty completely specified, such as

Tuesday, April 12, 1952 AD or 3:30:42pm

PST.

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