public class Utils { public static void main(String[] args) { String mytime="Jan 17, 2012"; SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat( "MMM dd, yyyy"); Date myDate = null; try { myDate = dateFormat.parse(mytime); } catch (ParseException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } SimpleDateFormat timeFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); String finalDate = timeFormat.format(myDate); System.out.println(finalDate); }}


