Conversion characters for date in Java

The following are the conversion characters for date-time −

Character Description
c Complete date and time
F ISO 8601 date
D U.S. formatted date (month/day/year)
T 24-hour time
r 12-hour time
R 24-hour time, no seconds
Y Four-digit year (with leading zeroes)
y Last two digits of the year (with leading zeroes)
C First two digits of the year (with leading zeroes)
B Full month name
b Abbreviated month name
m Two-digit month (with leading zeroes)
d Two-digit day (with leading zeroes)
e Two-digit day (without leading zeroes)
A Full weekday name
a Abbreviated weekday name
j Three-digit day of year (with leading zeroes)
H Two-digit hour (with leading zeroes), between 00 and 23
k Two-digit hour (without leading zeroes), between 0 and 23
I Two-digit hour (with leading zeroes), between 01 and 12
l Two-digit hour (without leading zeroes), between 1 and 12
M Two-digit minutes (with leading zeroes)
S Two-digit seconds (with leading zeroes)
L Three-digit milliseconds (with leading zeroes)
N Nine-digit nanoseconds (with leading zeroes)
P Uppercase morning or afternoon marker
p Lowercase morning or afternoon marker
z RFC 822 numeric offset from GMT
Z Time zone
s Seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT
Q Milliseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT

The following is an example −

Example

 Live Demo

import java.util.Calendar; public class Demo {    public static void main( String args[] ) {       Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();       System.out.printf( "%1$tA, %1$tB %1$td, %1$tY\n", cal );       System.out.printf( "%1$ta, %1$tb %1$te, %1$ty\n", cal );    } }

Output

Monday, November 26, 2018 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2018 Mon, Nov 26, 18
Updated on: 2020-06-27T05:14:05+05:30

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