Format "shot date (yyy mm dd) + custom name"

Question

While creating subfolders with de advanced photo downloader from my camera i want to use the format "shot date (yyy mm dd) + custom name". This format seems not available in the Dutch version of the program. The format should be available as it seems in the "Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 - Classroom in a book".
How to organize my format?
Fons

Answer 1

If you have a string like 2008-12-15 and you want to interpret it as a date and format it as 12/15/2008, then you need two DateFormat objects.
One to parse the String in the first format into a Date, -------> i could do this
try {
          String begin_date = "2008-12-15";
          System.out.println("The begin date is :"+begin_date);
          DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
          Date d1 =  df.parse(begin_date);
          System.out.println("the Date value is d1 :"+d1);
catch() {
}Output is :The begin date is :2008-12-15
the Date value is d1 :Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2008
Pls help me with the second part :- ?????/
and one to format that Date into a String in the second format. MM/dd/yyyy --- how to do this ..after i tried several times with different statements , i am asking this piece of code to achieve this