Here you can find the source of parse(String xmlDateTime)
public static Date parse(String xmlDateTime) throws ParseException
//package com.java2s; /**/*ww w.j a va 2 s .c o m*/ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; public class Main { public static final String XSD_DATETIME = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"; public static Date parse(String xmlDateTime) throws ParseException { if (xmlDateTime.length() != 25) { throw new ParseException("Date not in expected xsd:datetime format", 0); } StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(xmlDateTime); sb.deleteCharAt(22); SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(XSD_DATETIME); return simpleDateFormat.parse(sb.toString()); } }