How to extract day, month and year from Date using Java?

Question

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
Date date = formatter.parse("2020/05/06"); 

I need to extract day, month and year from it i.e.

int day = 06;
int  month = 05;
int year = 2020;

but when I use

int day = date.getDay();
int month = date.getMonth();
int day = date.getYear(); 

its not working.

Answer 1

Don't use Date as it is deprecated. Use LocalDate and DateTimeFormatter as follows.

LocalDate ld  = LocalDate.parse("2020/05/06", 
              DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy/MM/dd"));
int year = ld.getYear();
int month = ld.getMonthValue();
int day = ld.getDayOfMonth();
System.out.println(month + " " + day + " " + year);

Prints

5 6 2020

Check out the other date/time related classes in the java.time package.