How to use java Date object??

[bczm8703]

hi... my code is as below

String sDate="12-09-2008 1200 ";
        DateFormat dateformatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HHmm");
        Date transDate;

 try
        {
            transDate=dateformatter.parse(sDate);

            System.out.println(transDate.toString());
        }

with the codes above i saw this:

Fri Sep 12 12:00:00 SGT 2008

but the output that i would like to have see for the println() shld be something like this:

12-09-2008 1200

is this possible??

[DarrylBurke]

Use the same SimpleDateFormat to format(...) the Date.

Understand that a java.util.Date is an encapsulation of an instant in time. The toString() method represents this instant in a human-readable, locale dependent way. Read the documentation.

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