I need a date

Question

I'm trying to pull a date out of a MS SQL 2000 db and make it readable and place it onto a webpage. What's the best way to separate and obtain the day, the month, and the year from the db retrievel. And once I have those three separate objects, should I use a dateformat object to display them to the screen?
thanks in advance
e miller

Answer 1

You can get the date as timestamp using getTimestamp() and then construct a Date Object from this
by getting the millisec and pass that Date Object to SimpleDateFormat to convert to the format you want.
Here is the code you have to include in you JSP
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yy hh:mm a");
// Get the timestamp from result set
Timestamp ts = rs.getTimestamp();
// The date will return as a string in the specified format
String date_to_display = sdf.format(new Date( ts.getTime()));