Hi,
I am trying to save some fields in a table, one field with type Date.
It only accepts date with the following format (01-Jan-05). I am reading the date as a string (24/09/2005) and then convert it to date. but i do not know to convert it to the following format (24-Sep-05) to store it in the table??
Please I need help urgently. This is my code :
 <% String issuedate = request.getParameter("issuedate");
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
myIssueDate = format.parse(issuedate);
mindecree.setIssueDate(new java.sql.Date(myIssueDate.getTime())); %>

I do not have code to hand, but I think you can add a parameter

SimpleDateFormat(DateFormat.MEDIUM);

Which will write out the format you want, not sure if I have got the right method here (i.e. whether this works with SimpleDateFormat) but if you google around for DateFormat.MEDIUM I think you will find what your after

Thank you angrycat,
I've tried it but it does notwork...!!!

Sorry,

should have told you to try this first:

DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MMM/yyyy");

will return short description of month

DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MMMM/yyyy");

Will return full name, you can mess with YY in the same way, does this help??