java - Parsing date - yyyy-dd-mm hh:mm:ss -

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i have date string follows:

2015-12-24 08:06:44

now have parse function:

public static string parsedate(string date) {          date olddate = null;          try {              system.out.println("unparsed: "+date);             dateformat oldformat = new simpledateformat("yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss");             olddate = oldformat.parse(date);              system.out.println("old date parsed: "+olddate);             dateformat newformat = new simpledateformat("yyyy-mm-dd", locale.english);              date result = newformat.parse(olddate.tostring());              return result.tostring();          } catch (exception e) {             e.printstacktrace();         }         return null;     } 

the first system.out gives me:

unparsed: 2015-12-24 08:06:44

the second one:

sat jan 24 08:06:44 gmt+05:30 2015

where second 1 have mentioned date format as:

new simpledateformat("yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss"); 

please advise on whats wrong here

i want month , day input string - desired dec 24 above sample date string.

its mm month not mm.

dateformat oldformat = new simpledateformat("yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss a"); 

simpledateformat doc