Java examples for Date Time:SimpleDateFormat
Parsing custom formatted date string into Date object using SimpleDateFormat
import java.util.Date; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy"); try/*from ww w.jav a 2 s . c om*/ { Date date = sdf.parse("31/12/06"); System.out.println(date); } catch(ParseException pe) { System.out.println("Parse Exception : " + pe); } } }