Convert a date string with time zone to only weekday and date

Question

I'm having a string like this: Wed Feb 20 02:48:00 GMT+05:30 2019 and I need to convert it to Wed 20.

How can I do this?

I tried string.replace(), but that doesn't help I'm a newbie please help

Answer 1

try this

class Test
{
        public static void main(String ... args)
        {
                String s="Wed Feb 20 02:48:00 GMT+05:30 2019";
                String arr[]=s.split(" ");
                if (arr.length >=3)
                {
                        String result=arr[0]+" "+arr[2];
                        System.out.println(result);
                }
        }
}
$ java Test
Wed 20