When you want to change the date pattern of your received string and you don’t want to use a date format as an output then use the statement of this “how to”.
The following table is a set of Java and Talend methods that allow conversion between different datatypes. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but will cover many of type conversions that you will encounter. You can use them in the tMap, tXMLmap or tJava component for example.