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Date Format Types FormatDate orderDescription1MM/DD/YYMonth-Day-Year with leading zeros (02/17/2009)2DD/MM/YYDay-Month-Year with leading zeros (17/02/2009)3YY/MM/DDYear-Month-Day with leading zeros (2009/02/17)4Month D, YrMonth name-Day-Year with no leading zeros (February 17, 2009)24 more rows

Create a custom date format Select the cells you want to format. Press Control+1 or Command+1. In the Format Cells box, click the Number tab. In the Category list, click Date, and then choose a date format you want in Type.

"mm/dd/yyyy" - the date format used in the USA, displays as 03/08/2015. "dd/mm/yyyy" - the date format used by the rest of the world, displays as 08/03/2015. "dd-mmm-yy" - displays as 08-Mar-15 to avoid any confusion : ) "dddd, mmmm d, yyyy" - full date, including the day of the week, displays as Sunday, March 08, 2015.

The international standard recommends writing the date as year, then month, then the day: YYYY-MM-DD. So if both Australians and Americans used this, they would both write the date as 2019-02-03.

Format Cells (Different Date Formats + Creating Custom Date format) Select the cells for which you want to change the date format. Hold the Control key and then press the 1 key. ... In the Format Cells dialog box, make sure the Number tab is selected. Click on the Date option in the category list.

Convert text dates by using the DATEVALUE function Enter =DATEVALUE( Click the cell that contains the text-formatted date that you want to convert. Enter ) Press ENTER, and the DATEVALUE function returns the serial number of the date that is represented by the text date. What is an Excel serial number?

Let's see the simple code to convert Date to String in java. Date date = Calendar.getInstance().getTime(); DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss"); String strDate = dateFormat.format(date);