Question: how would you write te date if i have a date and all i want is the month and the day like this (mm/dd) and then turn the month like this July, 08

Answer: 
Let me see if I understood well. 

You have a date like "07/08" and you want "July, 08"?

You could try [SimpleDateFormat](http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html)

```
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;

class Test {
    public static void main( String [] args ) throws ParseException  {

        SimpleDateFormat in  = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd");
        SimpleDateFormat out = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM, dd");

        System.out.println( out.format( in.parse("07/08") ) );

        // Verbose 
        //String input = "07/09";           
        //Date  date = in.parse( input );  
        //String output = out.format( date );
        //System.out.println( output );
    }
}

```
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> the month and the day like this (mm/dd) and then turn the month like this July, 08
> 
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So you want to convert `MM/dd` to `MMMM, dd`? So you start with a `String` and you end up with a `String`? Then you need another `SimpleDateFormat` instance with the first pattern.

```
String dateString1 = "07/08";
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd").parse(dateString1);
String dateString2 = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM, dd").format(date);
System.out.println(dateString2); // July, 08 (monthname depends on locale!).

```