java - converting date format

Question

I got date as '14-Dec-2010' i want to get the month in number format for the given date. that is., i want to convert the date to '14-12-2010'.

Answer 1

DateFormat inFm = new SimpleDateFormat("d-MMM-y");
DateFormat outFm = new SimpleDateFormat("d-M-yyyy");
Date date = inFm.parse("14-Dec-2010");
String output = outFm.format(date);

Generally, you should use a datetime type like Date internally, then transform to String at output time.