simpledateformat for month and day in month only

Question

I require this format MonthDay, example 0422

I'm creating

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMdd");

and giving it the current month and current day

curDate = sdf.parse(curMon+""+curDay);

but I'm getting this format:

Thu Jun 07 00:00:00 CEST 1973

What do I need to do?

A standard `Date` has no format. If you use `System.out.println(someDate)`, it just prints the date object with the default formatting (as in your example), irrespective of how you created that object. — Vincent van der Weele, May 27 '13 at 13:32
if you already have curMon and curDay, why do you need a SimpleDateFormat ? — Blackbelt, May 27 '13 at 13:34

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '13 at 13:35

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Instead of using parse, use format as follows:

SimpleDateFormat s = new SimpleDateFormat("MMdd");
String d = s.format(new Date());
System.out.println(d);

This will generate, since today is 27th May:

answered May 27 '13 at 13:35

Rahul Bobhate

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Ganesh Katikar · Answer 2 · 2014-08-19T13:52:43.340

I hope below code will help you...

    strDate="2014-08-19 15:49:43";

    public String getMonth(String strMonth) {

    int month = Integer.parseInt(strMonth.substring(0, 2));
    int day = Integer.parseInt(strMonth.substring(strMonth.length() - 2,
            strMonth.length()));

    String d = (new DateFormatSymbols().getMonths()[month - 1]).substring(
            0, 3) + " " + day;
    return d;
}


 public static String smallDate(String strDate) {

    String str = "";
    try {
        SimpleDateFormat fmInput = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
        Date date = fmInput.parse(strDate);

        SimpleDateFormat fmtOutput = new SimpleDateFormat("MMdd");
        str = fmtOutput.format(date);

        str = getMonth(str);
         Log.d("Output date: "+str);
        return str;


    } catch (Exception e) {

    }
}

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 27 '13 at 13:34

use like that

Date date; // your date
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.setTime(date);

        String month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH).toString();
        String day = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH).toString();
        String mmdd=month+""+day;

simpledateformat for month and day in month only

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