Java SQL Date parse String like "2020-12-31 00:00:00"

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

public class Main {

  public static void main(String args[]) throws ParseException {
    String strDate = "2020-12-31 00:00:00";
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss");
    java.util.Date date = sdf.parse(strDate);
    java.sql.Date sqlDate = new Date(date.getTime());
    System.out.println("String converted to java.sql.Date :" + sqlDate);
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}