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I want to take a date value as String in the format yyyy-MM-dd and return a jabva util date in the same format.
for this I am using below code , but the result is coming as "Wed Sep 18 00:00:00 CEST 2013"

 SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
 String strdate = "2013-09-18";
 Date utilDate = sdf.parse(strdate);
 System.out.println(utilDate);

Do i need to consider the locale also ?
Please help to achieve this.
Thanks in advance

Please try below code.
You also have to format your simpleDateFormat object and pass utilDate object inside it to create formatted date as specified by you.

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateTest 

 public static void main(String args) throws ParseException
 SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
 String strdate = "2013-09-18";
 Date utilDate = sdf.parse(strdate);
 String date=sdf.format(utilDate );
 System.out.println(date);
 

We can also implement through Java8 like below:

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

public class DateTest 

 public static void main(String args) throws ParseException
 String strdate = "2013-09-18";
 DateTimeFormatter formatter=DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd");
 LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(strdate, formatter);
 System.out.println(date.format(formatter));

or you can also use only LocalDate to change in java util like below.

import java.time.LocalDate;

public class TestCircle 

 public static void main(String args)
 String strdate = "2013-09-18";
 LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(strdate);
 System.out.println(date);