Convert String "22/08/2013" to date format 2013/08/22

Question

This is my code in scala

 var s:String ="22/08/2013"
 var  simpleDateFormat:SimpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");
 var  date:Date = simpleDateFormat.parse(s);
 println(date)

the date is not change. the format of date same as 22/08/2013 there is no change to 2013/08/22

How to change the format dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy/mm/dd in scala

Answer 1

You need to define a SimpleDateFormat which first parses your string and get Date from it. And then convert it to whatever format.

 var s:String ="22/08/2013"
 var  simpleDateFormat:SimpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/mm/yyyy");
 var  date:Date = simpleDateFormat.parse(s);
 val ans = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/mm/dd").format(date) 
 println(ans)