Java Utililty Methods Parse Date

String dateToParse = certDate;
DateFormat dateFormat = fullDateFormat;
switch (certDate.length()) {
case 1:
case 2:
    dateFormat = yearDateFormat;
    break;
case 3:
...

SimpleDateFormat dtFormatdB = null;
dtFormatdB = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
try {
    return dtFormatdB.parse(currDate);
} catch (Exception e) {
    try {
        return dtFormatdB.parse(currDate);
    } catch (Exception ex) {
...

SimpleDateFormat sd1 = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d yyyy HH:mm");
SimpleDateFormat sd2 = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d yyyy");
Pattern pt = Pattern.compile("\\*\\*DATE\\[([A-Za-z]+ \\d{1,2} \\d{4})\\](?:\\s(\\d{2})\\:?(\\d{2}))?");
Matcher mt = pt.matcher(d);
if (mt.matches()) {
    String date = mt.group(1);
    String h = mt.group(2);
    String m = mt.group(3);
...

if (d == null) {
    return null;
try {
    return s_dateFormat.parse(d);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    throw new RuntimeException(e);

try {
    return new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT).parse(d).getTime();
} catch (Exception e) {
return 0;

try {
    DateFormat parser = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
    return parser.parse(datastr);
} catch (ParseException ex) {
    return null;

if (date == null || date.equals("null")) {
    return null;
List<SimpleDateFormat> dateFormats = new ArrayList<SimpleDateFormat>();
dateFormats.add(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"));
Date d = new Date();
for (SimpleDateFormat format : dateFormats) {
    try {
...

if (date == null) {
    return null;
int index = date.lastIndexOf(":");
date = date.substring(0, index) + date.substring(index + 1);
Date d = null;
try {
    if (date.length() == 24) {
...

try {
    return new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").parse(date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    return null;

try {
    return createFormater().parse(date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected date format " + date);