datetime on a jtextfield

[devstarter]

[This is a multi-post; I thank you people for the attention]

hi

How could I show a database datetime field (like mm/dd/yyyy) on a JTextField?

regards

[travishein]

The JTextField works with a String right, setText().
where a database datetime is going to be a java.util.Date (or a java.sql.Date, or a java.sql.Timestamp)

The java.text.SimpleDateFormat is handy for converting between strings and dates. You specify the formatting string, see the javadoc

Where in this example I assume we have read a timestamp object,

SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Timestamp myDatabaseTime = // fetched from database right...
java.util.Date aDate = new java.util.Date(myDatabaseTime.getTime()); // not even required to convert it, timestamp extends Date.

jTextField.setText(fmt.format(aDate));