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The source code is released under:

Apache License

Java Source Code

package de.ecotastic.android.camerautil.util;
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import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;

/**
 * A helper class to conveniently parse date information.
 * 
 * @author Ralf Gehrer <ralf@ecotastic.de>
 */
@SuppressLint("SimpleDateFormat")
public class DateParser {
  //ISO 8601 international standard date format
  public final static String dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSSZ";
  
  public final static TimeZone utc = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
  
  /**
   * Converts a Date object to a string representation.
   * @param date
   * @return date as String
   */
  public static String dateToString(Date date) {
    if (date == null) {
      return null;
    } else {
      DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat);
      df.setTimeZone(utc);
      return df.format(date);  
    }
  }
  
  /**
   * Converts a string representation of a date to its Date object.
   * @param dateAsString
   * @return Date
   */
  public static Date stringToDate(String dateAsString) {
    try {
      DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat);
      df.setTimeZone(utc);
      return df.parse(dateAsString);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
      return null;
    } catch (NullPointerException e) {
      return null;
    }
  }
}

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