struggling with parseDate when I try System.out.println(TalendDate.parseDate("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss", "13-10-2010 12:23:45"));

[BeginnerNeedsHelpPlease]

Hello

I understand TalendDate.parseDate changes a string into a Date.

It is supposed to returns a date in the specified format, but i don't know how to specify the format.

I understand the arguments in the function are below in bold:

TalendDate.parseDate("format date of the string to be parsed", "string in the format of the date to be parsed")

As such, I never specify the format when I return the result

For example, I have a tjava and i do:

System.out.println(TalendDate.parseDate("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss", "13-10-2010 12:23:45"));

and it returns this result:

Wed Oct 13 12:23:45 CEST 2010

I never specifiied I want Day of week, Month, Day, Time, CEST Year...

instead I want the result to be YEAR MONTH DAY

I don't care about the time,

how can I specify the final format and the result should also be a date and not a string?

is it possible?

thank you

[Anonymous]

Hello @adi nul​ ,

The default date format for System.out.println(date1) is "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy"

if you want to change the output date format, you can use another method System.out.printf() like

System.out.printf("%tY-%<tm-%<td", date1);

​For your case, to keep the date type and specify the final format, you can use tMap component to convert the date and setup the Date Pattern to "yyyy-MM-dd" like the below

Best regards

Aiming

[jlolling]

You should never rely on the default behaviour of the JVM version. The default format for the Date-2-String conversion is always a matter of change. Please use always the TalendDate routines to convert Strings to Date and Date to String.