Java The Complete Reference, Seventh Edition

Chapter 27: NIO, Regular Expressions, and Other Packages 843

System.out.println(sdf.format(date));
}
}

Sample output from this program is shown here:

10:25:03

12 Jul 2006 10:25:03 CDT

Wed Jul 12 2006

Symbol Description

a AMorPM

d Day of month (1–31)

h Hour inAM/PM(1–12)

k Hour in day (1–24)

m Minute in hour (0–59)

s Second in minute (0–59)

w Week of year (1–52)

y Year

z Time zone

D Day of year (1–366)

E Day of week (for example, Thursday)

F Day of week in month

G Era (that is, AD or BC)

H Hour in day (0–23)

K Hour inAM/PM(0–11)

M Month

S Millisecond in second

W Week of month (1–5)

Z Time zone in RFC822 format

TABLE 27-6

Formatting String
Symbols for
SimpleDateFormat