Java Parse Date parseDate(String date, Locale locale)

Description

parse Date

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String parseDate(String date, Locale locale) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2012 Sebastian Hagedorn <sh@sernet.de>.
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or 
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License 
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,    
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty 
 * of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  
 * See the GNU General Public License for more details.
 *     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public 
 * License along with this program. /*  ww  w. ja v a  2 s .  c om*/
 * If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     Sebastian Hagedorn <sh@sernet.de> - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/

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

import java.util.Locale;

public class Main {
    public static String parseDate(String date, Locale locale) {

        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EE, dd.MM.yyyy",
                locale);
        SimpleDateFormat destinationFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
                "dd.MM.yyyy", locale);
        formatter.setLenient(true);
        try {
            Date fDate = formatter.parse(date);
            String ret = destinationFormat.format(fDate);
            return ret;
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return date;
        }
    }
}

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