Java : Cannot format given Object as a Date

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DateFormat.format only works on Date values.

You should use two SimpleDateFormat objects: one for parsing, and one for formatting. For example:

// Note, MM is months, not mm
DateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/yyyy", Locale.US);
DateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSX", Locale.US);

String inputText = "2012-11-17T00:00:00.000-05:00";
Date date = inputFormat.parse(inputText);
String outputText = outputFormat.format(date);

EDIT: Note that you may well want to specify the time zone and/or locale in your formats, and you should also consider using Joda Time instead of all of this to start with – it’s a much better date/time API.

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