SimpleDateFormat dt1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");

请参阅此处“日期及时间模式”。http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

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

public class DateConversionExample{

  public static void main(String arg[]){

    try{

    SimpleDateFormat sourceDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-DD HH:mm:ss");

    Date date = sourceDateFormat.parse("2011-01-18 00:00:00.0");


    SimpleDateFormat targetDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    System.out.println(targetDateFormat.format(date));

    }catch(ParseException e){
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
  } 

}

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

public class SystemDateTest {

    String stringDate;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SystemDateTest systemDateTest = new SystemDateTest();
        // format date into String
        SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss");
        systemDateTest.setStringDate(simpleDateFormat.format(systemDateTest.getDate()));
        System.out.println(systemDateTest.getStringDate());
    }

    public Date getDate() {
        return new Date();
    }

    public String getStringDate() {
        return stringDate;
    }

    public void setStringDate(String stringDate) {
        this.stringDate = stringDate;
    }
}

try
 {
    String date_s = "2011-01-18 00:00:00.0";
    SimpleDateFormat simpledateformat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S");
    Date tempDate=simpledateformat.parse(date_s);
    SimpleDateFormat outputDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");           
    System.out.println("Output date is = "+outputDateFormat.format(tempDate));
  } catch (ParseException ex) 
  {
        System.out.println("Parse Exception");
  }

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!