Java tutorial
import java.time.LocalDate; import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter; import java.time.format.FormatStyle; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { DateTimeFormatter dateFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDate(FormatStyle.MEDIUM); System.out.println(dateFormatter.format(LocalDate.now())); // Current Local Date System.out.println(dateFormatter.parse("Jan 19, 2014").getClass().getName()); //java.time.format.Parsed System.out.println(dateFormatter.parse("Jan 19, 2014", LocalDate::from)); // Jan 19, 2014 } }