Conversion of JDBC date to SQL date!!

Question

I've a date format of "Sun Dec 03 01:18:11 IST 2006" (JDBC format)
and want to convert in into "2006/12/03 01:18:11:00" (SQL format).
I've tried with SimpleDateFormat, but it didn't work. It is not accepting that value or format.
Could anyone help me out!!!!

Answer 1

JDBC format? SQL format? Huh?
You need to be working with java.sql.Date and PreparedStatements to properly escape the Date in the database.
As for the SimpleDateFormat, what does "not work" look like?
package cruft;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.util.Date;
* DateFormatTest
* @author md87020
* @since Dec 20, 2006
public class DateFormatTest
   public static void main(String[] args)
      DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("E MMM dd hh:mm:ss z yyyy");
      for (int i = 0; i < args.length; ++i)
         try
            Date date = null;
            date = formatter.parse(args);
System.out.println(date);
catch (ParseException e)
System.err.println("i: " + i + " value: " + args[i]);
e.printStackTrace();
This program appears to be doing some Locale conversions for me, and I don't have time to sort it out.
But the idea is that you should be sending java.sql.Date to the database. Let the JDBC driver handle any SQL conversions for you with PreparedStatements.