Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: Apache License import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; public class Main { /** * Tries to parse a Date from Bitbucket's scraped HTML source code. * * @param datetime contents of datetime attribute of time tag * For example 2014-06-06T22:08:03+03:00 or 2015-01-12T20:07:08.658593 * @return Date or null if parsing fails */ public static Date parseBitbucketDatetime(String datetime) { Date date; SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"); try { date = format.parse(datetime); } catch (ParseException e1) { format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSSSS"); try { date = format.parse(datetime); } catch (ParseException e2) { format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); try { date = format.parse(datetime.substring(0, 10)); } catch (ParseException | IndexOutOfBoundsException e3) { // give up and hope these will be provided via API in the future :) date = null; } } } return date; } }