Formatting a Date

Question

Hi, Can someone tell me how to simply format the date to this:
MON DD, YYYY
Thanks

Answer 1

You can use the SimpleDateFormat like:
java.text.DateFormat df = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(format);where formar is a String like:
format= "dd/MM/yyyy";for a date like "07/06/2003"
You can use any format you want modifying the format using the following symbols:
Symbol Meaning Presentation Example
G era designator (Text) AD
y year (Number) 1996
M month in year (Text & Number) July & 07
d day in month (Number) 10
h hour in am/pm (1~12) (Number) 12
H hour in day (0~23) (Number) 0
m minute in hour (Number) 30
s second in minute (Number) 55
S millisecond (Number) 978
E day in week (Text) Tuesday
D day in year (Number) 189
F day of week in month (Number) 2 (2nd Wed in July)
w week in year (Number) 27
W week in month (Number) 2
a am/pm marker (Text) PM
k hour in day (1~24) (Number) 24
K hour in am/pm (0~11) (Number) 0
z time zone (Text) Pacific Standard Time
' escape for text (Delimiter)
'' single quote (Literal) '
Juan Carlos