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Dman100 date format
I have a date field in a custom object that I am going to populate from a visualforce page.
My method is as follows:
public date getStartDate() { date dtCurrentDate = date.today(); Integer i; date dtStartDate; i = dtCurrentDate.year(); string s = string.valueof('1/01/' + i); dtStartDate = date.parse(s); return dtStartDate; }
This displays my date on my visualforce page as:
1/01/09 12:00AM
How can I format to a shortdate as: 1/1/2009. There is additional manipulation I will do to the date before inserting into the date field in my custom object, but I want to get the formatting to a shortdate without the time.
What I've been doing is convert the Date object to a DateTime ( use DateTime.newInstance(dateObj.year(), dateObj.month(), dateObj.day()) ) and then call format(String) on it. The params for this method is exactly same as that used in Java's SimpleDateFormat:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
Thanks, I finally got this working correctly:
date dtDateFormat = date.valueof(workweek); tr.Work_Week__c = dtDateFormat; insert tr;