Android Date String Parse parseDate(String atomPubDate)

Description

parse Date

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static Date parseDate(String atomPubDate) 

Method Source Code

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

public class Main{
    private static final String[] DATE_FORMATS = { FORMAT_1, FORMAT_2,
            FORMAT_3, FORMAT_4, FORMAT_5 };
    public static Date parseDate(String atomPubDate) {
        return parseDate(atomPubDate, Locale.getDefault());
    }
    /**
     * @since 1.0.1
     * @param atomPubDate
     * @return
     */
    public static Date parseDate(String atomPubDate, Locale locale) {
        Date d = null;
        SimpleDateFormat sdf;
        for (int i = 0; i < DATE_FORMATS.length; i++) {
            sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMATS[i], locale);
            sdf.setLenient(true);
            try {
                d = sdf.parse(atomPubDate);
                break;
            } catch (ParseException e) {
                continue;
            }
        }

        if (d == null) {
            for (int i = 0; i < DATE_FORMATS.length; i++) {
                sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMATS[i], Locale.ENGLISH);
                sdf.setLenient(true);
                try {
                    d = sdf.parse(atomPubDate);
                    break;
                } catch (ParseException e) {
                    continue;
                }
            }
        }

        return d;
    }
    public static Date parseDate(String date, String format) {
        if (date == null) {
            return null;
        }
        return parseDate(date,
                new SimpleDateFormat(format, Locale.getDefault()));
    }
    /**
     * @since 1.0.1
     * @param atomPubDate
     * @return
     */
    public static Date parseDate(String date, SimpleDateFormat sdf) {
        Date d = null;
        sdf.setLenient(true);
        try {
            d = sdf.parse(date);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            d = parseDate(date);
        }
        return d;
    }
}

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