[SalesForce] How to convert date time to date

On a http call response i was getting date as 1970-01-08T23:45:27.461Z. Here i have to change it to date like 1970-01-08 … need some ideas…

when i tried to take Date type in wrapper classes directly it is throwing errors.. while displaying it to visual force pages….

    Date date="code to convert time stamp shown above to date "

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First you need to normalise that string, then convert it to DateTime (there is already an apex function for that) of which you can easily obtain the date component. Here is a sample code:

String dateTimeString = '1970-01-08T23:45:27.461Z';
dateTimeString = dateTimeString.substring(0, dateTimeString.indexOf('.'));
dateTimeString = dateTimeString.replace('T', ' ');
Date myFinalDate = DateTime.valueOf(dateTimeString).date();

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[SalesForce] date/time – date conversion problem

Here's what a DateTime looks like when blatted out on a page as a string:

(format one)

Fri Nov 30 21:55:38 GMT 2012

You can't just hydrate that string back into a DateTime. You must construct or deserialize it.

Here's what a serialized DateTime looks like:

(format two)

"2014-01-24T16:56:27.044Z"

It's not the same as the above string output. You need something more like this:

public DateTime dateFromUrl() {
    String serializedDate = ApexPages.currentPage().getParameters().get('startDate');
    return (DateTime)Json.deserialize(serializedDate, DateTime.class);
}

And as a good web citizen, if you're serving up the parameter in a link it should be URL encoded:

https://c.na1.visual.force.com/apex/MyPage?startDate=2014-01-24T16%3A56%3A27.044Z

And you might note that the DateTime.valueOf method expects yet a different value:

(format three)

yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss

Knowing these, we can ensure that we are creating (and expecting) matching date formats.

[SalesForce] Convert DateTime to Date

Datetime objects have this date method:

date()

Returns the Date component of a Datetime in the local time zone of the context user.

so your code can use it like this:

Datetime dt = (Datetime) resultSet.get('LastModifiedDate');
sf.lastModifiedDate = dt.date();

(Generally you would need a null check in the code but as LastModifiedDate always has a value here you don't.)

So this gets you the correct Date object value. But an answer is needed to mast0r's question to cover how to get the final presentation right.

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