Creating a Date object using an existing date object of different format

Question

I am stuck in a problem while converting the date formats:
I have a date object in the format "yyyy-MM-dd" (e.g., 2009-08-21). And i want to create a date object in the format "MM/dd/yyyy" (e.g., 08/21/2009)
    String s = oldDate.toString(); SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy"); Date newDate = formatter.parse(s);
the above code gives parse Exception:
    java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2009-08-21"
Any Clues ?
Edited by: Rahul.Mittal on Aug 21, 2009 10:09 AM
Edited by: Rahul.Mittal on Aug 21, 2009 10:12 AM

Answer 1

my apologies for putting it into a wrong forum. Anyways thanks for the pointer.
But i still feel that if i somehow get the desired Date object i can get through the problem. Something like this:
     public Date getdOJ() {
          Date oldDate = this.dOJ;
          SimpleDateFormat oldFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");
          Date newDate;
          try {
                           String s = oldDate.toString();
                           SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
                           Date newDate = formatter.parse(s);
          } catch (ParseException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          return newDate;
     }Unfortunately i am getting java.text.ParseException