Hello guys,
Some programmers many time faces difficulty while changing date format in liferay. Therefore By Below example, I am going to guide you How to change date format in liferay?

Given bellow is the date format in GMT of liferay

"E MMM dd HH:mm:ss 'GMT' yyyy"   4 Nov 2014 10:08:28 GMT 

Now , retrieve record created date :

List<DDLRecord> ddlRecordnew = null;


        try {

    ddlRecordnew = DDLRecordLocalServiceUtil.getDDLRecords(-1,Integer.MAX_VALUE);


        if (ddlRecordnew != null) {

            for (int i = 0; i &lt; ddlRecordnew.size(); i++) {
            String createDate=ddlRecordnew.get(i).getCreateDate().toGMTString();
                       System.out.println(createDate);


// output :4 Nov 2014 10:08:28 GMT

}
}
}
catch(Exception e)
{
}

If you want to change date format of createDate

//applyPattern("E MMM dd HH:mm:ss 'GMT' yyyy");  4 Nov 2014 10:08:28 GMT 
    Date dt = new SimpleDateFormat("d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss 'GMT'").parse(createDate); 
    //applyPattern("yyyy/MM/dd");  
    String createDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd").format(dt);