How do I create a java.sql.Date object in Java?

Using the Constructor

The java.sql.Date represents the date value in JDBC. The constructor of this class accepts a long value representing the desired date and creates respective Date object.

Date(long date)

You can create this object using this constructor.

Example

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
public class Demo {
   public static void main(String args[]) throws ParseException {  
      String str = "26-09-1989";
      SimpleDateFormat obj = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");      
      long epoch = obj.parse(str).getTime();      
      System.out.println("Date value: "+epoch);
      //Creating java.util.Date object
      java.util.Date date = new java.util.Date(epoch);
      System.out.println(date);
   }
}

Output

Date value: 622751400000
Tue Sep 26 00:00:00 IST 1989

Using the valueOf() method

The valueOf() method of this class has two variants as shown below −

• valueOf(LocalDate date);
• valueOf(String s);

This method accepts a LocalDate object or a date string value (yyyy-[m]m-[d]d format) representing a desired date and creates/returns a java.sql.Date object.

Example

import java.sql.Date;
import java.time.LocalDate;
public class Demo {
   public static void main(String args[]) {  
      LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.of(2014, 9, 11);
      Date date = Date.valueOf(localDate);
      System.out.println(date);
   }
}

Output

Date Value: 2014-09-11

Example

import java.sql.Date;
public class Demo {
   public static void main(String args[]) {  
      String str = "2017-12-03";
      Date date = Date.valueOf(str);
      System.out.println("Date Value: "+date);
   }
}

Output

yyyy-[m]m-[d]d