Followings is the use of characters in date formatting patterns.
Sr.No. | Class & Description |
---|---|
1 | GTo display Era. |
2 | yTo display Year. Valid values yy, yyyy. |
3 | MTo display Month. Valid values MM, MMM or MMMMM. |
4 | dTo display day of month. Valid values d, dd. |
5 | hTo display hour of day (1-12 AM/PM). Valid value hh. |
6 | HTo display hour of day (0-23). Valid value HH. |
7 | mTo display minute of hour (0-59). Valid value mm. |
8 | sTo display second of minute (0-59). Valid value ss. |
9 | STo display milliseconds of minute (0-999). Valid value SSS. |
10 | ETo display Day in week (e.g Monday, Tuesday etc.) |
11 | DTo display Day in year (1-366). |
12 | FTo display Day of week in month (e.g. 1st Thursday of December). |
13 | wTo display Week in year (1-53). |
14 | WTo display Week in month (0-5) |
15 | aTo display AM / PM |
16 | kTo display Hour in day (1-24). |
17 | KTo display Hour in day, AM / PM (0-11). |
18 | zTo display Time Zone. |
Example
In this example, we’re formatting dates based on different patterns.
Open Compiler
importjava.text.ParseException;importjava.text.SimpleDateFormat;importjava.util.Date;publicclassI18NTester{publicstaticvoidmain(String[] args)throwsParseException{String pattern ="dd-MM-yy";SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat =newSimpleDateFormat(pattern);Date date =newDate();System.out.println(simpleDateFormat.format(date));
pattern ="MM-dd-yyyy";
simpleDateFormat =newSimpleDateFormat(pattern);System.out.println(simpleDateFormat.format(date));
pattern ="yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
simpleDateFormat =newSimpleDateFormat(pattern);System.out.println(simpleDateFormat.format(date));
pattern ="EEEEE MMMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSSZ";
simpleDateFormat =newSimpleDateFormat(pattern);System.out.println(simpleDateFormat.format(date));}}
Output
It will print the following result.
07-06-24
06-07-2024
2024-06-07 16:04:40
Friday June 2024 16:04:40.866+0530
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