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change the format of a date field in JAVA

How do I convert a date field [Jan 17, 2014 5:57:05 PM] to yyyy-mm-dd HH::MM::ss

--My Definition--
Date timestamp;

--get the value--
this.timestamp= (Date)sd.getFieldValue("timestamp");

Thanks for your help

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dpearson

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CEHJ

to yyyy-mm-dd HH::MM::ss

If you have a variable of type java.sql.Timestamp, its toString method will give you that format

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I am reading the date information from SOLR database. The date field in define as a 'Date' type

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I am reading the date information from SOLR database. The date field in SOLR define as a 'Date' type and I need to return a variable of type date with format(yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS)

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Sorry ...

The value is I get from SOLR is of type DATE e.g Jan 17, 2014 5:57:05 PM
I would like to convert it to format (yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:ss) and return this value as type 'Date'

Thanks for your help . I will try to debug with your suggession

CEHJ

The value is I get from SOLR is of type DATE

This is the Java TA. Which Java type do you get?

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Java.util.Date

CEHJ

OK good. See my previous code example

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