Getting default date format in the console when working with excel

Question

I am using excel to get the data in java. I have given some date as yyyy-mm-dd. But when I am trying to get those values in the console using System.out.println(date). I am getting different date format as dd-mmm-yyyy. Whatever the date format I have given,in the console its printing only the dd-mmm-yyyy format.Any suggestion plz..

Answer 1

If you use Date object in System.out.println, it will call toString() method of Date class and print the date in dd-mmm-yyyy format (with time as well).

If you want to print Date in any custom format then you need to use SimpleDateFormat, e.g.:

Date date = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
System.out.println(format.format(date));

Here's the javadoc for SimpleDateFormat class.