Changing one date format to another

Question

I 'm getting the date in the following format (Date and not String):

Tue Jun 26 07:00:00 EDT 2012

I want to change the format of the date to (Date):

6/26/2012 10:19:15 AM 

so as to update the same in the data base. I tried following code:

Date dte;
Date dte1;(Tue Jun 26 07:00:00 EDT 2012)
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("m/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a");
String formattedDate = formatter.format(dte1);
dte  = formatter.parse(formattedDate);
SystemUtils.trace("test", " date>>>" + dte); 

is yielding the following response:

Thu Jan 26 07:00:00 EST 2012

Can any one please share the piece of code to do the same asap.

Solution 1

You shouldn't have to format dates to insert them in a database. If using JDBC, use prepared statements.

To answer your question, though, m can't mean minute and month at the same time. M means month. m means minute.

Solution 2

This code outputs needed for you result:

Date dte = new Date();//or something else
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a");
String formattedDate = formatter.format(dte);
System.out.println(formattedDate);