Convert Date To String in Java

Posted in: Java.text,Java.Util,Java.Util.SimpleDateFormat “java.text.SimpleDateFormat” can be used to convert a java date object (java.util.Date) to a string (String, StringBuffer, StringBuilder, etc..).
The whole magic is done by SimpleDateFormat, the child of “java.text.DateFormat”, which, as its name suggests, formats the date by a provided template.

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;


public class ConvertDateToString
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
        String date = df.format(new Date());
        System.out.println("Date String: " + date);
    }
}