Formatting incoming string with date/time classes?

Question

Hello,
In the software I am writing currently I am @ a certain point talking to an external device. sending requests, receiving responses.
One of the things I find in the response is "20090429094222", as a string.
I cannot change anything to that, thats the way I get it from the device, so thats where I'll have to start with.
As you could probably guess this is a date and a time. Now my question. Is there a good way to format this from 20090429094222
to
2009-04-29 09:42:22
using date and or time classes, not using String operations?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I found a class containing 2 functions who do exactly what I need, for those intrested:
public static Date convertStringToDate(String txtFormat, String txtDate) {
        DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(txtFormat);
        Date date =  dateFormat.parse(txtDate);
        return date;
public static String formatDate(Date date, String txtFormat) {
        DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(txtFormat);
        String txtDate = dateFormat.format(date);
        return txtDate;
    }Using them this way gives me exactly what I want:
Date dt = DateUtil.convertStringToDate("yyyyMMddHHmmss", incomingDateSTring);
String newDateString = DateUtil.formatDate(dt, "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");Problem solved, thanks alot to those who gave me some explanation on the problem.