Java Program to Convert Date to String

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In the previous article we have discussed Java Program to Convert char to String

In this article we will see how to convert a date to string.

Program To Convert Date To String

Before going into the program, let’s see some examples of both  String and date type.

Example-1: String types

S1= “2021-54-07 10:54:25”
Examples-2: Date  types 

LocalDate a = 1999-20-10;

Let’s see different ways to convert date to String.

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Method 1 : Java Program to Convert Date to String Using format() method

This is the method of DateFormat class which is used to convert the given Date into String .

Approach :

  1. Take the instant date and time through inbuild function getInstance().getTime() , store it in a variable lets say “d”.
  2. Define the format of date .
  3. Convert the date into the String according to the format  and store it into a variable output .
  4. Print the result .

Program :

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Calendar;

public class Main

{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
    // taking the instant date and time
    Date d = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
    // converting to the date format
    DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss");
    String output = df.format(d);
    System.out.println("Converted date String: " + output);
    }
}
Output : 

Converted date String: 09/08/2021 02:43:018

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