Here you can find the source of parse(String s)
public static Date parse(String s) throws ParseException
//package com.java2s; /*/*from ww w. j ava 2 s . c o m*/ * Copyright 2014 C.T.Co SIA, Brivibas street 48/50, Riga, Latvia. All rights reserved. * * Licensed 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 { private static final String DEFAULT_PATTERN = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"; public static Date parse(String s) throws ParseException { return parse(s, DEFAULT_PATTERN); } public static Date parse(String date, String pattern) { try { SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern); return format.parse(date); } catch (ParseException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } } }