How to use SimpleDateFormat In Java

  1. In this approach, we are using the SimpleDateFormat class from Java’s standard library to parse a user-inputted date and time string (userInput) in the format “yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss” into a Date object (res).
  2. The SimpleDateFormat object (dFormat) is initialized with the desired date-time format, and the parse method is used to convert the string into a Date object based on this format.
  3. Finally, the parsed Date object is printed to the console using println.

In the below example, the SimpleDateFormat library is used to convert String to date time.

Scala
// importing necessary classes from Java
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
import java.util.Date

// Creating object GFG
object GFG {
  // Main method
  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {

    // Input string representing date and time
    val userInput = "2024-03-27 13:30:00"

    // Creating SimpleDateFormat object with the desired date-time format
    val dFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")

    // Parsing the input string to obtain a Date object
    val res = dFormat.parse(userInput)

    // Printing the parsed Date
    println("Parsed Date: " + res)
  }
}

Output:

How to Convert String to Date Time in Scala?

In this article, we will learn how to convert String to DateTime in Scala. Converting String to DateTime consists of parsing a textual representation of date and time into a structured DateTime object for further manipulation and processing in Scala programs.

Table of Content

  • Using SimpleDateFormat
  • Using SimpleDateFormat with Calender
  • Using Simple Parsing
  • Using Regular Expressions

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