How to convert time value to YYYY-MM-DD format in Java?

Question

How to convert time value to YYYY-MM-DD format in Java?

long lastmodified = file.lastModified(); String lasmod = /*TODO: Transform it to this format YYYY-MM-DD*/ 

Answer 1

Something like:

 Date lm = new Date(lastmodified); String lasmod = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(lm); 

See javadoc for SimpleDateFormat .

Answer 2

 final Date modDate = new Date(lastmodified); final SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); final String lasmod = f.format(modDate); 

SimpleDateFormat

Answer 3

 String lasmod = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(new Date(lastmodified)); 

Check out the correct template you want for SimpleDateFormat ... Maybe I included the wrong one from memory.

Answer 4

Try:

 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; long lastmodified = file.lastModified(); SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); String lastmod = format.format(new Date(lastmodified)); 

Answer 5

 Date d = new Date(lastmodified); DateFormat form = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); String lasmod = form.format(d);