Java String to Date toDate(String date, String format)

Description

to Date

License

LGPL

Declaration

public static Date toDate(String date, String format) 

Method Source Code

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

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Calendar;

import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    public static Date toDate(String date, String format) {
        Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
        c.set(Calendar.YEAR, 0);/*ww w  .  ja  va  2s .  co  m*/
        c.set(Calendar.MONTH, 0);
        c.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
        c.set(Calendar.HOUR, 12);
        c.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
        c.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
        c.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
        Date d;
        try {
            d = sdf.parse(date);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("unable to parse date from [" + date + "]", e);
        }
        c.setTimeInMillis(d.getTime());
        // log.debug("Parsed ["+c.getTime()+"] from ['"+date+"','"+format+"']");
        Date dateType = c.getTime();
        assert null != dateType;
        return dateType;
    }
}

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