Java Date Value Check isDateValid(String date, Locale locale)

Description

Because the date passed as argument can be in java format, and because not all formats are compatible with joda-time, this method checks if the date string is valid with java.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
date	date passed as argument

Return

true if is a java date

Declaration

public static boolean isDateValid(String date, Locale locale)

Method Source Code


//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Apache License 

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;

import java.util.Locale;

public class Main {
    /**/*from   w  ww.  ja  va2  s  . com*/
     * Because the date passed as argument can be in java format, and because not all formats are compatible
     * with joda-time, this method checks if the date string is valid with java. In this way we can use the
     * proper DateTime without changing the output.
     *
     * @param date date passed as argument
     * @return true if is a java date
     */
    public static boolean isDateValid(String date, Locale locale) {
        try {
            DateFormat format = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.DEFAULT, DateFormat.DEFAULT, locale);
            format.parse(date);
            return true;
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            return false;
        }
    }
}