Java Utililty Methods Parse Date Pattern YYYY

T defaultValue = null;
try {
    if (clazz == Date.class) {
        String stringValue = parse(String.class, object);
        return clazz.cast(new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss Z yyyy", Locale.US).parse(stringValue));
    if (clazz == Integer.class) {
        defaultValue = (T) DEFAULT_INTEGER;
...

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");
String dateStr = sdf.format(d);
return dateStr;

SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
try {
    return df.parse(df.format(strDate));
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
return null;

Parse the provided date.

return parse(dateString, null);

final boolean isTruncatedDate = isTruncatedDate(inputDate);
for (final String format : INPUT_DATE_FORMATS) {
    try {
        return createDateFormat(format, isTruncatedDate).parse(inputDate);
    } catch (final ParseException e) {
throw new JsonParseException("Unsupported Date format " + inputDate);
...

try {
    return sdf1.parse(s);
} catch (ParseException e) {
return null;

if (source == null || source.trim().length() == 0) {
    return null;
if (source.length() <= dateTimeFormat.toPattern().length()
        && source.length() >= dateTimeFormat.toPattern().length() - 5) {
    try {
        return dateTimeFormat.parse(source);
    } catch (ParseException ex) {
...

return DATE_FORMAT.parse(source);

try {
    return DB_FORMAT.parse(String.valueOf(date));
} catch (ParseException e) {
    return null;

if (time == null) {
    return null;
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTimeInMillis(time);
return cal.getTime();