How to Convert Java String to Date Object

String startDateString = "06/27/2007";
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy"); 
Date startDate;
try {
    startDate = df.parse(startDateString);
    String newDateString = df.format(startDate);
    System.out.println(newDateString);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

String string = "January 2, 2010";
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MMMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(string, formatter);
System.out.println(date); // 2010-01-02

Symbol	Meaning	Presentation	Examples
G	era	text	AD; Anno Domini; A
u	year	year	2004; 04
y	year-of-era	year	2004; 04
D	day-of-year	number	189
M/L	month-of-year	number/text	7; 07; Jul; July; J
d	day-of-month	number	10
Q/q	quarter-of-year	number/text	3; 03; Q3; 3rd quarter
Y	week-based-year	year	1996; 96
w	week-of-week-based-year	number	27
W	week-of-month	number	4
E	day-of-week	text	Tue; Tuesday; T
e/c	localized day-of-week	number/text	2; 02; Tue; Tuesday; T
F	week-of-month	number	3
a	am-pm-of-day	text	PM
h	clock-hour-of-am-pm (1-12)	number	12
K	hour-of-am-pm (0-11)	number	0
k	clock-hour-of-am-pm (1-24)	number	0
H	hour-of-day (0-23)	number	0
m	minute-of-hour	number	30
s	second-of-minute	number	55
S	fraction-of-second	fraction	978
A	milli-of-day	number	1234
n	nano-of-second	number	987654321
N	nano-of-day	number	1234000000
V	time-zone ID	zone-id	America/Los_Angeles; Z; -08:30
z	time-zone name	zone-name	Pacific Standard Time; PST
O	localized zone-offset	offset-O	GMT+8; GMT+08:00; UTC-08:00;
X	zone-offset 'Z' for zero	offset-X	Z; -08; -0830; -08:30; -083015; -08:30:15;
x	zone-offset	offset-x	+0000; -08; -0830; -08:30; -083015; -08:30:15;
Z	zone-offset	offset-Z	+0000; -0800; -08:00;

How to convert string to date object in java

User proper formatter with your code to parse string mentioned below

    SimpleDateFormat localDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd yyyy - HH:mm");
    String oldstring = "Mar 19 2018 - 14:39";
    Date date=localDateFormat.parse(oldstring);
    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    calendar.setTime(date);
    int hours = calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
    int minutes = calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
    int seconds = calendar.get(Calendar.SECOND);

How to convert String to date object[without time]

The Date class represents a date and time (it's confusingly named) so you'll get a time component regardless. The standard recommendation for a useable and intuitive date/time API is to use Joda, which gives you these specific models.

To answer your second question, you can convert that back to a string using SimpleDateFormat again (check the doc). As before, I would recommend Joda here since the SimpleDateFormat class is (counter-intuitively) not thread-safe!

Java String to DateTime

You can create Joda DateTime object from the Java Date object, since Java does not have a DateTime class.

DateTime dt = new DateTime(start.getTime());

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Though the Date class of Java holds the time information as well(that's what you need in the first place), I suggest you to use a Calendar instead of the Date class of Java.

Calendar myCal = new GregorianCalendar();
myCal.setTime(date);

Have a look at the Calendar docs for more info on how you can use it more effectively.

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Things have changed and now even Java (Java 8 to be precise), has a LocalDateTime and ZonedDateTime class. For conversions, you can have a look at this SO answer(posting an excerpt from there).

Given: Date date = [some date]

(1) LocalDateTime << Instant<< Date

Instant instant = Instant.ofEpochMilli(date.getTime());
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.ofInstant(instant, ZoneOffset.UTC);

(2) Date << Instant << LocalDateTime

Instant instant = ldt.toInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC);
Date date = Date.from(instant);

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