Date Parsing

Question

Hi,
I have a string in mm/dd/yyyyy format.
I want to convert this string in yyyy-mm-dd format.
I am using simpledateformat to convert it into a Date object.
It gives me "Thu Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 2006" this object.
When i parse it again using SimpleDateFormat to convert it into yyyy-mm-dd format it gives me
2006-00-26 it makes the month 00.
Please let me know whats the problem or any other better solution to achieve the same

Answer 1

public static String FORMAT = "MM/dd/yyyy";
     public static String YEAR_FORMAT = "yyyy-mm-dd";
     public static java.util.Date parseDate(String date){
          java.util.Date dateParsed = null;
          try{
               DateFormat date_formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(FORMAT);
               date_formatter.setLenient(false);
               dateParsed = date_formatter.parse(date);
               System.out.println("Inside the sco****************"+dateParsed);
          catch(ParseException e){
               e.printStackTrace();
          return dateParsed;
     public static String parseDateYear(String date){
          String dateParsed = null;
          try{
               SimpleDateFormat date_formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(YEAR_FORMAT);
               dateParsed = date_formatter.format(parseDate(date));
               System.out.println("Inside the sco****************"+dateParsed);
          catch(Exception e){
               e.printStackTrace();
          return dateParsed;
Thats how i m doing it