格式是大小写敏感的，所以使用MM表示月，而不是MM(这是分钟)和yyyy 作为参考，您可以使用以下备忘单。

G   Era designator  Text    AD
y   Year    Year    1996; 96
Y   Week year   Year    2009; 09
M   Month in year   Month   July; Jul; 07
w   Week in year    Number  27
W   Week in month   Number  2
D   Day in year Number  189
d   Day in month    Number  10
F   Day of week in month    Number  2
E   Day name in week    Text    Tuesday; Tue
u   Day number of week (1 = Monday, ..., 7 = Sunday)    Number  1
a   Am/pm marker    Text    PM
H   Hour in day (0-23)  Number  0
k   Hour in day (1-24)  Number  24
K   Hour in am/pm (0-11)    Number  0
h   Hour in am/pm (1-12)    Number  12
m   Minute in hour  Number  30
s   Second in minute    Number  55
S   Millisecond Number  978
z   Time zone   General time zone   Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00
Z   Time zone   RFC 822 time zone   -0800
X   Time zone   ISO 8601 time zone  -08; -0800; -08:00

例子:

"yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z"  2001.07.04 AD at 12:08:56 PDT
"EEE, MMM d, ''yy"  Wed, Jul 4, '01
"h:mm a"    12:08 PM
"hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz" 12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time
"K:mm a, z" 0:08 PM, PDT
"yyyyy.MMMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa"  02001.July.04 AD 12:08 PM
"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"    Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700
"yyMMddHHmmssZ" 010704120856-0700
"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'"   2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-0700
"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX"   2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-07:00
"YYYY-'W'ww-u"  2001-W27-3

其他答案是正确的，基本上你在你的图案中有错误数量的“y”字符。

时区

还有一个问题，你没有提到时区。如果你指的是UTC，那么你应该这么说。如果不是，说明答案不完整。如果您只需要日期部分而不需要时间，那么没有问题。但是如果您要做的进一步工作可能涉及到时间，那么您应该指定一个时区。

乔达时间

下面是相同类型的代码，但是使用了第三方开源的Joda-Time 2.3库

// © 2013 Basil Bourque. This source code may be used freely forever by anyone taking full responsibility for doing so.

String date_s = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";

org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter formatter = org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat.forPattern( "yyyy-MM-dd' 'HH:mm:ss.SSS" );
// By the way, if your date-time string conformed strictly to ISO 8601 including a 'T' rather than a SPACE ' ', you could
// use a formatter built into Joda-Time rather than specify your own: ISODateTimeFormat.dateHourMinuteSecondFraction().
// Like this:
//org.joda.time.DateTime dateTimeInUTC = org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat.dateHourMinuteSecondFraction().withZoneUTC().parseDateTime( date_s );

// Assuming the date-time string was meant to be in UTC (no time zone offset).
org.joda.time.DateTime dateTimeInUTC = formatter.withZoneUTC().parseDateTime( date_s );
System.out.println( "dateTimeInUTC: " + dateTimeInUTC );
System.out.println( "dateTimeInUTC (date only): " + org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat.date().print( dateTimeInUTC ) );
System.out.println( "" ); // blank line.

// Assuming the date-time string was meant to be in Kolkata time zone (formerly known as Calcutta). Offset is +5:30 from UTC (note the half-hour).
org.joda.time.DateTimeZone kolkataTimeZone = org.joda.time.DateTimeZone.forID( "Asia/Kolkata" );
org.joda.time.DateTime dateTimeInKolkata = formatter.withZone( kolkataTimeZone ).parseDateTime( date_s );
System.out.println( "dateTimeInKolkata: " + dateTimeInKolkata );
System.out.println( "dateTimeInKolkata (date only): " + org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat.date().print( dateTimeInKolkata ) );
// This date-time in Kolkata is a different point in the time line of the Universe than the dateTimeInUTC instance created above. The date is even different.
System.out.println( "dateTimeInKolkata adjusted to UTC: " + dateTimeInKolkata.toDateTime( org.joda.time.DateTimeZone.UTC ) );

运行时……

dateTimeInUTC: 2011-01-18T00:00:00.000Z
dateTimeInUTC (date only): 2011-01-18

dateTimeInKolkata: 2011-01-18T00:00:00.000+05:30
dateTimeInKolkata (date only): 2011-01-18
dateTimeInKolkata adjusted to UTC: 2011-01-17T18:30:00.000Z

你可以用:

Date yourDate = new Date();

SimpleDateFormat DATE_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String date = DATE_FORMAT.format(yourDate);

它工作得很完美!

/**
 * Method will take Date in "MMMM, dd yyyy HH:mm:s" format and return time difference like added: 3 min ago
 *
 * @param date : date in "MMMM, dd yyyy HH:mm:s" format
 * @return : time difference
 */
private String getDurationTimeStamp(String date) {
    String timeDifference = "";

    //date formatter as per the coder need
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM, dd yyyy HH:mm:s");
    TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("EST");
    sdf.setTimeZone(timeZone);
    Date startDate = null;
    try {
        startDate = sdf.parse(date);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        MyLog.printStack(e);
    }

    //end date will be the current system time to calculate the lapse time difference
    Date endDate = new Date();

    //get the time difference in milliseconds
    long duration = endDate.getTime() - startDate.getTime();

    long diffInSeconds = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(duration);
    long diffInMinutes = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(duration);
    long diffInHours = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(duration);
    long diffInDays = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(duration);

    if (diffInDays >= 365) {
        int year = (int) (diffInDays / 365);
        timeDifference = year + mContext.getString(R.string.year_ago);
    } else if (diffInDays >= 30) {
        int month = (int) (diffInDays / 30);
        timeDifference = month + mContext.getString(R.string.month_ago);
    }
    //if days are not enough to create year then get the days
    else if (diffInDays >= 1) {
        timeDifference = diffInDays + mContext.getString(R.string.day_ago);
    }
    //if days value<1 then get the hours
    else if (diffInHours >= 1) {
        timeDifference = diffInHours + mContext.getString(R.string.hour_ago);
    }
    //if hours value<1 then get the minutes
    else if (diffInMinutes >= 1) {
        timeDifference = diffInMinutes + mContext.getString(R.string.min_ago);
    }
    //if minutes value<1 then get the seconds
    else if (diffInSeconds >= 1) {
        timeDifference = diffInSeconds + mContext.getString(R.string.sec_ago);
    } else if (timeDifference.isEmpty()) {
        timeDifference = mContext.getString(R.string.now);
    }

    return mContext.getString(R.string.added) + " " + timeDifference;
}

使用java。Java 8及以上版本的时间包:

String date = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
TemporalAccessor temporal = DateTimeFormatter
    .ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S")
    .parse(date); // use parse(date, LocalDateTime::from) to get LocalDateTime
String output = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd").format(temporal);

为什么不简单地使用它呢

Date convertToDate(String receivedDate) throws ParseException{
        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
        Date date = formatter.parse(receivedDate);
        return date;
    }

还有，这是另一种方式:

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
String requiredDate = df.format(new Date()).toString();

or

Date requiredDate = df.format(new Date());