Set Date Patterns with SimpleDateFormat in Java

The following pattern letters are defined (all other characters from 'A' to 'Z' and from 'a' to 'z' are reserved) for Date and Time in Java

Reference − Oracle Java

The above pattern letters are combined to format the date and time. For example −

dd/MM/yyyy
dd-MM-yyyy
MM/dd/yyyy
yyyy-MM-dd

The following is another example −

Example

 Live Demo

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class Demo {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      String pattern = "MM/dd/yyyy";
      SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
      Date dt = dateFormat.parse("22/11/2018");
      System.out.println(dateFormat.format(new Date()));
   }
}

Output

11/22/2018