Simple Java Date Conversion

Having some troubles and can't find a quick answer.. Im trying to store a date within a string, and later fetch it to convert it back to a date. However when storing the date using

Solution 1:

You could use SimpleDateFormat with its methods parse() and format().

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS");
String tmp = sdf.format(new Date());
Date date = sdf.parse(tmp);

Solution 2:

Do you need it to be a string? long is easier :)

do

long time = new Date().getTime();

Date date = new Date(time);

then you dont' have to parse

Solution 3:

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");

// to string
String dateStr = formatter.format(new Date());

// to date 
Date date = formatter.parse(dateStr);

Solution 4:

use SimpleDateFormat as shown below.

SimpleDateFormat formatter= new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

//this will convert date into string.
String temp = formatter.format(currentDate.getTime());

//this will convert string into date format.    
Date date=(Date)formatter.parse(temp);