It’s because mm is for minutes, not months. More in the documentation. Just about the time you were asking your question the newer java.time package was added to the standard Java library. These days, you’d probably use that as shown in Arvind Kumar Avinash’s answer. But the same thing applies to the formatter there, mm … Read more
This is very close to being off–topic as opinion based, but here goes anyway. Which one of these should I use? Date.prototype.toLocaleString was originally solely implementation dependent and varied quite a bit across browsers. When support for the Intl object was added (ECMAScript 2015, ed 6) then toLocaleString was allowed to support the same options. … Read more
Here is an example of getting the future date… var targetDate = new Date(); targetDate.setDate(targetDate.getDate() + 10); // So you can see the date we have created alert(targetDate); var dd = targetDate.getDate(); var mm = targetDate.getMonth() + 1; // 0 is January, so we must add 1 var yyyy = targetDate.getFullYear(); var dateString = dd … Read more
You can define the date format you are trying to parse, using the class SimpleDateFormat: DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(“EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz”); Date date = formatter.parse(“Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:01:00 GMT”); Additionally, for non-English Locale‘s, be sure to use the following when parsing dates in English: new SimpleDateFormat(“EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss … Read more
If you just need to pass a date from Java to JavaScript, the best way to do it, I think, would be to convert the Java date to milliseconds using date.getTime(), create a JavaScript date initialized with this milliseconds value with new Date(milliseconds)and then format the date with the means of the JavaScript Date object, … Read more
The solution is quite simple, and maybe someone will find it useful. In most projects you have a couple of date formats you want to use. So it’s a good approach to define your formats with readable names. For this example I took just ‘short’ and ‘long’, but you will see, it’s very easy to … Read more
You may want to use the STR_TO_DATE() function. It’s the inverse of the DATE_FORMAT() function. STR_TO_DATE(str,format) This is the inverse of the DATE_FORMAT() function. It takes a string str and a format string format. STR_TO_DATE() returns a DATETIME value if the format string contains both date and time parts, or a DATE or TIME value … Read more