Change String Date Format : Java

Question

I'm building a web application and using a JQuery. I send a single String date to my servlet. It's format is "MM/dd/yyyy", how to convert this into dd/MM/yyyy?

Is it possible to set today date to datepicker and can be previous dates block?

Answer 1

I have found a solution using JQuery without using SimpleDateFormat or Date

  $( function() {
  $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker({
      dateFormat: "dd/mm/yy",
      minDate: 0
  });
  });

Answer 2

To format dates using Java 8, you can use a DateTimeFormatter:

LocalDate ld = LocalDate.parse("12/01/2017", DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM/dd/yyyy"));
System.out.println(ld.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd/MM/yyyy")));//prints 01/12/2017