Simple Date Format for string

Question

I have my current data as 2012-08-20T12:30:00+05:30

  DateTime currentdata = "2012-08-20T12:30:00+05:30";

I am using

 String myDate = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").format(currentdata);

I get Cannot format given Object as a Date

Any clues??

Answer 1

String myDate = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").format(currentdata.toDate());