How to format string to date in Android

February 14, 2023

In my application I one string such as 2023-2-14 and I want convert this to 2023-02-14.
I write below codes:

val format = SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd")
val date: Date = format.parse(startDateStr)
Log.e("dateLog",""+date)

But in logcat show me this : Wed Feb 15 00:00:00 GMT+03:30 2023

Why? I used this format : yyyy-MM-dd.
Why not used this format?

>Solution :

you are just parsing date, without a time, thus date object have set 00 for hour, day etc. now use format method for converting old String to new one

val formatAs = "yyyy-MM-dd"
var format = SimpleDateFormat(formatAs)
val date: Date = format.parse(startDateStr)
Log.e("dateLog","date:"+date)
String dateAsStringFormatted = format.format(date);
Log.e("dateLog","dateAsStringFormatted:"+dateAsStringFormatted)

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