Date string to Date object

Hi
How would i go about parsing some date strings in DD/MM/YYYY
format into a date objects. I am sure its an easy problem but i
cant find a simple way to do it as most of the API's want it a
differnt format like MM/DD/YYYY
Thanks for any help

Hi,
in the actionscript 3.0 cookbook there is a class DateFormat
described, which allows to parse strings to date objects.
You can download the code of the dateformat.as from here .
http://www.rightactionscript.com/ascb/
best regards,
kcell

Similar Messages

Validation For Date,String and Date in a reports Region

Apex 4
Good day to all apex users How do I validate a apex_item.text if the value is string the user can only input a string value if it is number then the user can input numbers only and if it is a date the user can only input a date values?

APEX_ITEMS are not part of the default apex gui... In fact they are just functions which returns html.
You can however do some stuff with the attributes parameters. You can find some cool stuff over here: Re: Validation For Date,String and Date in a reports Region
If you want apex validation you need to create a page validation and loop over your apex_items with apex_application.g_f0x
Br,
Nico

SimpleDateFormat: Parse String To Date

Hi
I'm trying to parse Date-String to Date. But the Date-String I want to parse is embedded in a Text like:
Bla bla bla bla bla bla 2004-05-05 bla bla bla bla bla.
So I tried the attached Class to solve the problem, but it didn't work.
Any ideas?
Thanks Bona
public class Test {
private static SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat();
private String text;
private Date date;
public Test() {
/ry {
text = "Bla bla bla bla bla bla 2004-05-05 bla bla bla bla bla.";
date = toDate(text, "yyyy-MM-dd");
System.out.println("Datum: "+date);
} catch (ParseException pe) {
System.out.println(pe.getMessage());
public static void main(String[] args) {
Test test1 = new Test();
public static Date toDate(String dateString, String dateFormatPattern)
throws ParseException {
Date date = null;
dateFormat.applyPattern(dateFormatPattern);
dateFormat.setLenient(true);
date = dateFormat.parse(dateString);
return date;
}

Well, you need to extract the date pattern from that String.
You can use regular expressions to do that. See theRegex package for info on how to do that.
BTW - AFAIK, lenient date parsing means, that the parser accepts stuff that matches the pattern, but contains illegal values like "2004-02-30" ...

How to convert server specific date string into client specific date object

Hi developers,
I have a very complex issue to convert the server date string format "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy" into java.util.Date object and find the difference of the client machine date to represent the elapsed time
The problem is the server time zone and client time zone are not unique and when I try to covert the server date which is in string format to date format using SimpleDateFormat class , I got the server time as 3:30 hours appended to it. The server time zone is in IST and Client time zone format is GMT+5:30 , the appended time of 3:30 hours created the confusion in calculating the elapsed time between the server started time and client requested time
I went through all the sites but none of them were useful
If any help to solve the above issue is appriciated
please send the response with the same subject line
Advance Thanks

Why don't you just subtract from the server time the 3:30 hours (consult api of java.util.date) before comparing with the client date? Hard to see where's the problem...

Issue with converting string to date object

Hi all,
I have a problem with sorting a list of dates in a table column. My dates are in the format 'yyyy-Mmm-dd'(Eg: 2009-Dec-23). Can someone help me how to sort the dates in this format. here is the code which i tried.
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-Mmm-dd");
          Date d1= new Date();
          Date d2= new Date();
          try {
               d1 = dateFormat.parse("2006-Jun-09");
             d2 = dateFormat.parse("2006-Apr-10");
          } catch (ParseException e) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e.printStackTrace();
          System.out.println("converted date 1"+ d1);
         System.out.println("converted date 1"+ d2);
Exception : Unparseable date: "2006-Jun-09"
     }Please someone help me how to pass this date in the right format.

I believe twisai may have lost the documentation so he/she can figure this out rather than guess that "Mmm" means 3-letter month, first letter capitalized. Let me remind him of the link:
[http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/index.html]

How to get Date Format from Local Object.

Hi All,
I am new to Web Channel.
I need to know Date format From date of locale.
suppose there is a date "01/25/2010" date in date field I want to get string "mm/dd/yyyy". Actually I have to pass date format to backend when I call RFC.
Is there any way to get Date format from "Locale" object. I should get date format for local object
I get local object from "UserSessionData" object but how to get Date format from it.
I am not looking for Date value. I am looking for current local date format ("mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy or mon/dd/yyyy) whatever local date format. I could not find example which show how to get date format from "Locale" object.
Any help will be appreciated with rewards.
Regards.
Web Channel

Hi,
You can get it from "User" or "Shop" business object.
Try to get User or Shop Business Object as shown below.
BusinessObjectManager bom = (BusinessObjectManager) userSessionData.getBOM(BusinessObjectManager.ISACORE_BOM);
User user = bom.getUser();
char decimalNotation = user.getDecimalPointFormat().getGroupingSeparator();
If you are seeing "1,234.00" then above code will return "."
I hope this information help you to resolve your issue.
eCommerce Developer.

Convert String to Date and Format the Date Expression in SSRS

Hi,
I have a parameter used to select a month and year string that looks like:    jun-2013
I can convert it to a date, but what I want to do is, when a user selects a particular month-year  (let's say "jun-2013")
I populate one text box with the date the user selected , and (the challenge Im having is) I want to populate a text box next to the first text box with the month-year 2 months ahead.    So if the user selects
jun-2013   textbox A will show jun-2013
and textbox B will show aug-2013..
I have tried:
=Format(Format(CDate(Parameters!month.Value ),
"MM-YYYY" )+ 2 )   -- But this gives an error
This returns the month in number format   like "8"    for august...
=Format(Format(CDate(Parameters!month.Value ),
"MM" )+ 2 )
What is the proper syntax to give me the result    in this format = "aug-2013" ???
Thanks in advance.
MC
M Collier

You can convert a string that represents a date to a date object using the util.scand JavaScript method, and then format a date object to a string representation using the util.printd method. For more information, see:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.1254.html
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.1251.html
In your case, the code would be something like:
var sDate = "2013-01-10";
// Convert string to date
var oDate = util.scand("yyyy-mm-dd", sDate);
// Convert date to new string
var sDate2 = util.printd("mm/dd/yyyy", oDate);
// Set a field value
getField("date2").value = sDate2;
The exact code you'd use depends on where you place the script and where you're getting the original date string, but this should get you started.

Problem in Converting String to Date

Hi All,
I am having one String
String date = "2006-01-17 15:19:57.0"
I want to parse this String into Date object.
I will really appriciate if somebody helps me out.
Thanks.

You're specifying a 'T' and a timezone in your format, but they're not present in the string you're parsing.
I'm assuming from the way you're printing out the date, that your thinking is along these lines: "sdfInput will parse the input string, no matter what format it's in, and will produce a Date object. That Date object wil have the format specified in sdfInput."
This is wrong on a couple of fronts:
1) DateFormat doesn't magically figure out what format it's supposed to use for the String it's parse()ing. The String has to match the DF's format.
2) Dates don't have formats. Only Strings do. A Date object is just a long. There's no relationship whatsoever between the Date that you get from parse() and the format that was used to produce it. When you print out a Date as you're doing, its toString method is called, which in turn uses a default format for your Locale.
If you want to turn a date string in one format into a date string in another format, use two different DateFormat objects with two different formats. Date date = df1.parse(inputString);
String outputString = df2.format(date);

Problem in converting the String to Date with time zone GMT

Hi,
When I tried to convert the string 12/05/2009 to Date, the time zone is set to BST.On the other hand, for the date 12/12/2009, the time zone is set to GMT. What should I do to get the time zone as GMT all the time.?
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
String dateString = "12/05/2009";
System.out.println(myDate.toString());

I think you are all missing the point. java.util.Date objects always alway always store the date as the number of milliseconds since 1/1/1970 UTC so the only TimeZone they have its the implicit UTC. When you use the Date.toString() method the toString() method gets the default time zone from your environment and formats the data accordingly. This means that the same Date object will, by default, produce a different result for France and Australia and the US.
So, if you have the date "12/5/2009" as a String then to convert it to a java.util.Date you must specify what TimeZone is implied. If it is your system time zone then you can just create a SimpleDateFormat object with the correct format and then use the parse() method to create the java.util.Date object and this will automatically be converted to UTC. If the date String represents some other time zone then you must explicitly set the time zone of the SimpleDateFormat object before parsing the string.
The same approach applies when converting a java.util.Date object to a String. If you want anything other than your system time zone then you must explicitly tell the SimpleDateFormat what time zone you want the result formatted for.

Convert a string to date, so that i can insert it on SQL database

Hi, me again..
i have this variable
date.getText()
i want to convert it to date, so i did this:
d = (Date) DateFormat.parse(date.getText());
but it says "Cannot make a static reference to the non-static method parse(String) from the type DateFormat"
what the hell is that?
can someone help? i want the date to correspond to the variable format on my database (DATETIME (yyyy-mm-dd))

GMX750 wrote:
OK, like this?:
DateFormat df;
df = DateFormat.parse(data.getText());
i did this, but the IDE says the same thing
: \If you don't know the difference between static and non-static methods, or how to instantiate an object, you're not ready to be messing with JDBC yet. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but it's the truth. If you keep trying to go down this path without getting a handle on the fundamentals, you're just setting yourself up for more frustration and a poor excuse for an education.
Sun's [basic Java tutorial|http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/]
Sun's [New To Java Center|http://java.sun.com/learning/new2java/index.html].Includes an overview of what Java is, instructions for setting up Java, an intro to programming (that includes links to the above tutorial or to parts of it), quizzes, a list of resources, and info on certification and courses.
[http://javaalmanac.com|http://javaalmanac.com]. A couple dozen code examples that supplement [The Java Developers Almanac|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201752808?v=glance].
jGuru. A general Java resource site. Includes FAQs, forums, courses, more.
JavaRanch. To quote the tagline on their homepage: "a friendly place for Java greenhorns." FAQs, forums (moderated, I believe), sample code, all kinds of goodies for newbies. From what I've heard, they live up to the "friendly" claim.
Bruce Eckel's [Thinking in Java|http://mindview.net/Books/DownloadSites] (Available online.)
Joshua Bloch's [Effective Java|http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-2nd-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0321356683/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214349768&sr=8-1]
Bert Bates and Kathy Sierra's [Head First Java|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596004656?v=glance].
James Gosling's [The Java Programming Language|http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0321349806].

How to conver string date to sql date

Hi,
i have a html form which will populate the date in the text field using popup window in the mm\dd\yy format .
In the servlet i first retrieve the value as string object and need to store that one the database. using setDate method of prepared statement
The date should be of type sql date only.
so my question is how to convert the string representation of the date to sql date.
Thanx in advance

use java.text.DateFormat and java.text.SimpleDateFormat.
%

Converting string to date in mm/dd/yyyy format

Hi,
I used simpledateformat to convert date to "MM/dd/yyyy" format.
Now when i want to insert into db, i want the value as date object instead of string [returned by format method of SimpleDateFormat]
what should i do?
Date dt = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
System.out.println("Formatted date is coming as "+sdf.format(dt));
Date dt1 = sdf.parse(sdf.format(dt);
System.out.println("parsed date is coming as " +dt1);
output :
1 SOP returns 11/07/2007 [current date]
2 SOP returns Wed Nov 07 00:00:00 GMT+05:30 2007

If you are using PreparedStatements setDate method, you need a java.sql.Date object, not a Java.util.Date object. You can create an sql.Date object from a util.Date object as follows:
java.sql.Date sqlDate = new java.sql.Date(dt.getTime());And, if you are not using PreparedStatement and its setDate method, then change now.
Doing
Date dt1 = sdf.parse(sdf.format(dt));is meaningless. You format the date to string, then parse the string back to a date? Why? Why not just use the original Date object? And you won't get a sql.Date object that way, either, as the DateFormat classes return a util.Date object.
Edit: And for more info:
A Date does not have a format. It is simply a number. The "format" only comes into play when printing the String representation of the Date, and that is not handled by the Date object itself (except when calling toString either explicitly or implicitly).

How to convert a string to date and then compare it with todays date???

Hello.
I want to set a format first for my dates
DateFormate df = new SimpleDateFormate("yyyy-mm-dd");
once this is done then I want to convert any string to date object in the above formate
String str="2001-07-19";
Date d = null;
try{
d = df.parse(s);
}catch(ParseException pe) {
pe.printStackTrace();
First of all there is something wrong above,cus what I get for this is
Fri Jan 19 00:07:00 MST 2001
where as it should have been
2001-07-19... to my understanding.
once this part is done I need to get current date in the above set format and compare the
current date and the date I set.
I will appreciate the help.
Thanks

for the output part:
a date is a point in time
the output depends on the format you specify for output
using for example a SimpleDateFormat.
You only specified the format for parsing (which is independent for that of output) so java uses some default format ... see the DateFormat.format() method for details.
for the comparison stuff, I just posted a little code snippet in this forum a few minutes ago.
the hint is: Date.getTime() returns milliseconds after a fixed date
hth Spieler

Converting String to Date

Hi All,
I am having a String value which is having date in the format 'Mon Apr 14 16:07:52 IST 2008'
Now I want to convert this String to Date with format 'mm/dd/yyyy' , to display as 04/14/2008
Also I want to add 5 days to this date and display the new date 04/19/2008
I don't know How to convert the string which is having date in 'Mon Apr 14 16:07:52 IST 2008' format to format I need.
Please help me.

Hi ,
I wrote a class that tries to parse a String Date and converts it to object. However, I found a very interesting thing while testing this code. I was trying to paarse "2008:03:04 16:21:05" string by using
DateFormat.getDateFromString(null,"2008:03:04 16:21:05" )
It should by pass all try loop accept the one with yyyy:MM:dd HH:mm:ss format. But it went inside the try loop which had MM:dd:yyyy HH:mm:ss format and gave me a wrong date object with year 0171, april 03.
Could any one help me to understand why it is happening? as a work around I put MM:dd:yyyy HH:mm:ss at the end of the program and it is giving me correct object as it did not have to go that far before matching the format.
Thanks,
AL-Amin
Code:
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class DateFormat
public Date getDateFromString(String format, String parseDate)
     Date d;
     if(format!=null) {
try
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
d = sdf.parse(parseDate);
catch(Exception e)
System.out.println(e.toString());
d = null;
return d;
     else {
          try
               format = "yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss";
     SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
     d = sdf.parse(parseDate);
     catch(Exception e)
     System.out.println(e.toString());
     System.out.println("The Date was not of '"+format+" ' format");
     d = null;
     if(d==null) {
          try
                    format = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
          SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
          d = sdf.parse(parseDate);
          catch(Exception e)
          System.out.println(e.toString());
          System.out.println("The Date was not of '"+format+" ' format");
          d = null;
     if(d==null) {
          try
                    format = "yyyy-MM-dd HH_mm_ss";
          SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
          d = sdf.parse(parseDate);
          catch(Exception e)
          System.out.println(e.toString());
          System.out.println("The Date was not of '"+format+" ' format");
          d = null;
     if(d==null) {
          try
                    format = "yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss";
          SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
          d = sdf.parse(parseDate);
          catch(Exception e)
          System.out.println(e.toString());
          System.out.println("The Date was not of '"+format+" ' format");
          d = null;
     if(d==null) {
          try
                    format = "yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss";
          SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
          d = sdf.parse(parseDate);
          catch(Exception e)
          System.out.println(e.toString());
          System.out.println("The Date was not of '"+format+" ' format");
          d = null;
     if(d==null) {
          try
                    format = "yyyyMMddHHmmss";
          SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
          d = sdf.parse(parseDate);
          catch(Exception e)
          System.out.println(e.toString());
          System.out.println("The Date was not of '"+format+" ' format");
          d = null;
     if(d==null) {
          try
                    format = "MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss";
          SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
          d = sdf.parse(parseDate);
          catch(Exception e)
          System.out.println(e.toString());
          System.out.println("The Date was not of '"+format+" ' format");
          d = null;
          if(d==null) {
          try
                    format = "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss";
          SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
          d = sdf.parse(parseDate);
          catch(Exception e)
          System.out.println(e.toString());
          System.out.println("The Date was not of '"+format+" ' format");
          d = null;
     if(d==null) {
          try
                    format = "MM:dd:yyyy HH:mm:ss";
          SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
          d = sdf.parse(parseDate);
          catch(Exception e)
          System.out.println(e.toString());
          System.out.println("The Date was not of '"+format+" ' format");
          d = null;
     if(d==null) {
          try
                    format = "dd:MM:yyyy HH:mm:ss";
          SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
          d = sdf.parse(parseDate);
          catch(Exception e)
          System.out.println(e.toString());
          System.out.println("The Date was not of '"+format+" ' format");
          d = null;
if(d==null) {
          try
                    format = "yyyy:MM:dd HH:mm:ss";
          SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
          d = sdf.parse(parseDate);
          catch(Exception e)
          System.out.println(e.toString());
          System.out.println("The Date was not of '"+format+" ' format");
          d = null;
     if(d==null) {
          System.err.println("None of the Date format worked. Please modify the calling method and provide a specific format");
     return d;
}

How to execute Custom java data source LOV view object from a common mthd?

Hi,
My application contains Custom java data source implemented LOVs. I want to have a util method which gets the view accessor name, find the view accessor and execute it. But i couldn't find any API to get the view accessors by passing the name.
Can anyone help me iin how best view accessors can be accessed in common but no by creating ViewRowImpl class (By every developer) and by accessing the RowSet getters?
Thanks in advance.

I am sorrry, let me tell my requirement clearly.
My application is not data base driven. Data transaction happens using tuxedo server.
We have entity driven VOs as well as programmatic VOs. Both are custom java data source implemented. Entity driven VOs will participate in transactions whereas programmatic VOs are used as List view object to show List of values.
Custom java datasource implementation in BaseService Viewobject Impl class looks like
        private boolean callService = false;
    private List serviceCallInputParams = null;
    public BaseServiceViewObjectImpl()
        super();
     * Overridden for custom java data source support.
    protected void executeQueryForCollection(Object qc, Object[] params, int noUserParams)
        List dataFromService = null;
        if(callService)
            callService = retrieveDataFromService(serviceCallInputParams);
        setUserDataForCollection(qc, dataFromService != null? dataFromService.iterator(): null);
        super.executeQueryForCollection(qc, params, noUserParams);
     * Overridden for custom java data source support.
    protected boolean hasNextForCollection(Object qc)
        Iterator<BaseDatum> datumItr = (Iterator<BaseDatum>) getUserDataForCollection(qc);
        if (datumItr != null && datumItr.hasNext())
            return true;
        callService = false;
        serviceCallInputParams = null;
        setFetchCompleteForCollection(qc, true);
        return false;
    }Individual screen developer, who want to load data to VO, will do something like the below code in their VO impl class
    public void fetch()
        BaseServiceViewObjectImpl vo = this;
        vo.setCallService(true);
        vo.setServiceCallInputParams(new ArrayList());
        vo.executeQuery();
    }As these custom java data source implemented LOV VOs comes across the screens, i want to have a util method at Base VOImpl class, that gets the view accessor name, finds the LOV VO instance, retrieves data for that. I want to do something like
     * Wrapper method available at Base Service ViewObject impl class
    public void fetchLOVData(String viewAccessorName, List serviewInputParams)
        // find the LOV View object instance
        BaseServiceViewObjectImpl lovViewObject = (BaseServiceViewObjectImpl) findViewAccessor(viewAccessorName);
        // Get data for LOV view object from service
        lovViewObject.setCallService(true);
        lovViewObject.setServiceCallInputParams(serviewInputParams);
        lovViewObject.executeQuery();
Question:
1. Is it achievable?
1. Is there any API available at View Object Impl class level, that gets the view accessor name and returns the exact LOV view object instance? If not, how can i achieve it?

Date string to Date object

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for