simple date format

[stilldancin12]

ok, yes this is a homework help question, and no i don't want just the answer. i actually really want to learn this.

Ok, so I have to the simple date format that displays today's date in "week day month day, year)

so here is what i got:

import java.text.*; //for SimpleDateFormat
import java.util.*; // for Date
public class date {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        date today;
        today= new date();
        [COLOR="Red"]sdf[/COLOR] = new SimpleDateFormat ("EEEE MMMM DD, YYYY");
        System.out.println("Today is" + sdf.format(today));
        /**
         * @param args
         */ 
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        }
    }

ok, so it looks pretty good, excpet that stinkin java won't read the "sdf". So i don't know what i am doing wrong with it. Any help or tips would be greatly appriciated.
Remember, i am not looking just for the answer, i really do want to learn this stuff.

[stilldancin12]

...ugh...

ok, so then i got the sdf to work, and then it gave me a warning that the java.util, was never used...so then i fixed that (not really sure how, but the warning went away) and not it won't read the sdf again.

so here is what my code looks like now:

import java.text.*; //for SimpleDateFormat
import java.util.*; // for Date
public class date {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		date today;
		today= new date();
		today.toString();
		sdf1.format(today);
		sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat ("EEEE MMMM DD, YYYY");
		System.out.println("Today is" + sdf1.format(today));
		/**
		 * @param args
		 */	
			// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		}
	}

AAHHH, i am about to throw java out the window!!!!! Please help!

[masijade]

SimpleDateFormats will only format Date objects (or classes that extend Date). They won't work on your date class.

[stilldancin12]

ok, so then what do i need to do to fix it? Sorry, I am very new to this, i don't know what i am doing.

[Ezzaral]

"stinkin java won't read the "sdf"" because you haven't "stinkin" declared it properly in any of the code you posted. You would need to do this:

SimpleDateFormat  sdf = new SimpleDateFormat ("EEEE MMMM DD, YYYY");

and even then, masijade's right - it isn't going to work your class just because you called it "date".

[stilldancin12]

thanks for ya'lls help. I figured out what ya'll were saying and I got it to work! yay me!

[ttano173]

Try putting SimpleDateFormat infornt of sdf

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat ("EEEE MMMM DD, YYYY");

[masijade]

Try putting SimpleDateFormat infornt of sdf

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat ("EEEE MMMM DD, YYYY");

Well,

1. That's already been said.
2. The OP has declared the problem solved.
3. You didn't notice that today was declared today=new date() rather than today=new Date() .

[javaAddict]

Well,

1. That's already been said.
2. The OP has declared the problem solved.
3. You didn't notice that today was declared today=new date() rather than today=new Date() .

And

4. This thread is 15 days old. Try to solve more current threads