Converting the format of the date in java

Question

I wanted to create a Date object in "yyyy-MM-dd hh:MM:ss" format. Below is the code I am using. date object formed after parsing the string is not the required format(expected:2020-04-04 00:00:00 but was: Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 CDT 2020). How can I convert the date to required format

  Date da = new Date();
  SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
  String dt = "2020-04-04 00:00:00";
  try {
    da = sdf.parse(dt);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 1

I wanted to create a Date object in "yyyy-MM-dd hh:MM:ss" format. Below is the code I am using. date object formed after parsing the string is not the required format(expected:2020-04-04 00:00:00 but was: Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 CDT 2020). How can I convert the date to required format

  Date da = new Date();
  SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
  String dt = "2020-04-04 00:00:00";
  try {
    da = sdf.parse(dt);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}