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I have a LocalDate variable called date,when I print it displays 1988-05-05 I need to convert this to be printed as 05.May 1988.How to do this?

SimpleDateFormat will not work if he is starting with LocalDate which is new in Java 8. From what I can see, you will have to use DateTimeFormatter, http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/format/DateTimeFormatter.html.

LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.now();//For reference

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd LLLL yyyy");

String formattedString = localDate.format(formatter);

That should print 05 May 1988. To get the period after the day and before the month, you might have to use "dd'.LLLL yyyy"

Could be short as:

LocalDate.now().format(

    DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd/MM/yyyy"));

System.out.println(LocalDate.now().format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd.MMMM yyyy")));

The above answer shows it for today

With the help of ProgrammersBlock posts I came up with this. My needs were slightly different. I needed to take a string and return it as a LocalDate object. I was handed code that was using the older Calendar and SimpleDateFormat. I wanted to make it a little more current. This is what I came up with.

    import java.time.LocalDate;

    import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;





    void ExampleFormatDate() {



    LocalDate formattedDate = null;  //Declare LocalDate variable to receive the formatted date.

    DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormatter;  //Declare date formatter

    String rawDate = "2000-01-01";  //Test string that holds a date to format and parse.



    dateTimeFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_DATE;



    //formattedDate.parse(String string) wraps the String.format(String string, DateTimeFormatter format) method.

    //First, the rawDate string is formatted according to DateTimeFormatter.  Second, that formatted string is parsed into

    //the LocalDate formattedDate object.

    formattedDate = formattedDate.parse(String.format(rawDate, dateTimeFormatter));



}

Hopefully this will help someone, if anyone sees a better way of doing this task please add your input.

LocalDate.now().format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd/MM/yyyy").toString())

Ex. You can use any kind of date pattern
1. dd/MM/yyyy
2. dd/MM/yy
3. yyyy/MM/dd

LocalDate date = LocalDate.now();//For reference

System.out.println(DateTimeFormat.longDate().print(date));

System.out.println(date.toString("dd.MMMM YYYY"));

Beware, language of month depends of locale or something.

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A pretty nice way to do this is to use SimpleDateFormat I'll show you how:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("d MMMM YYYY");

Date d = new Date();

sdf.format(d);

I see that you have the date in a variable:

sdf.format(variable_name);

Cheers.