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);
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