In Germany, dates have the format dayOfMonth.month.year.
So the day of writing this article is: 17.06.2018
How do you deal with such custom date formats in Java, taking the new DateTime API of Java 8 into account?
Here's a complete listing that first turns a string into a LocalDate
, then transforms it back to a string:
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
public class DateTimeParsing {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Parse the date from string, to LocalDate
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd.MM.yyyy");
LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.parse("17.06.2018", formatter);
System.out.println("The date is (default formatting): " + localDate);
// Turn a local date into a string
String formattedDateString = localDate.format(formatter);
System.out.println("The date is (formatted): " + formattedDateString);
}
}
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