Convert string to date in a specific format without time

Question

I have a doubt that when I am converting a String to date then It will return it as:

Sun Apr 30 00:00:00 GMT+05:30 2017

but I want the format to be as:

2017-04-30

Date last_date_date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").parse("2017-04-30");

So Which method I need to apply for that?

Answer 1

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

//current date into your required format
String str = dateFormat.format(new Date());

Answer 2

DateFormat df = SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date lastDateDate = df.parse("2017-04-30");


String date = df.format(lastDateDate);

Answer 3

Your code is working well, here is a proof:

Date last_date_date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").parse("2017-04-30");
System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(last_date_date));

OUTPUT:

2017-04-30