Here you can find the source of parseBingDate(String dateString)
static public Date parseBingDate(String dateString)
//package com.java2s; /**// w w w . ja va 2 s .c om *Copyright [2010] [David Hardtke] * * 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.DateFormat; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Calendar; import java.util.Date; import java.util.TimeZone; public class Main { static public Date parseBingDate(String dateString) { DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'kk:mm:ss'Z'"); df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT")); return parseDateString(dateString, df); } static public Date parseDateString(String dateString) { Date d = null; d = parseBingDate(dateString); if (d != null) return d; d = parseBossDate(dateString); if (d != null) return d; d = parseTwitterDate(dateString); if (d != null) return d; d = parseVideoSurfDate(dateString); if (d != null) return d; d = parseCollectaDate(dateString); if (d != null) return d; d = parseUnixDate(dateString); if (d != null) return d; return d; } static public Date parseDateString(String dateString, DateFormat df) { if (dateString == null || df == null) return null; try { Date out = df.parse(dateString); return out; } catch (ParseException pe) { return null; } } static public Date parseBossDate(String dateString) { DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd kk:mm:ss"); df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT")); return parseDateString(dateString, df); } static public Date parseTwitterDate(String dateString) { // Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:16:19 +0000 DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"); // DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE',' dd MMM yyyy kk:mm:ss Z"); return parseDateString(dateString, df); } public static Date parseVideoSurfDate(String dateString) { if (dateString == null || !dateString.contains("ago")) return null; Date d = null; Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance(); String[] splitString = dateString.split(" "); if (splitString.length > 1) { try { int number = Integer.parseInt(splitString[0]); String timeUnit = splitString[1]; if (timeUnit.contains("yr")) { today.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, -(365 * number)); } else if (timeUnit.contains("mo")) { today.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, -(30 * number)); } else if (timeUnit.contains("da")) { today.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, -(number)); } else if (timeUnit.contains("wk")) { today.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, -(7 * number)); } else if (timeUnit.contains("hr")) { today.add(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, -number); } else if (timeUnit.contains("mi")) { today.add(Calendar.MINUTE, -number); } return today.getTime(); } catch (NumberFormatException e) { return null; } } return d; } static public Date parseCollectaDate(String dateString) { DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss z yyyy"); return parseDateString(dateString, df); } static public Date parseUnixDate(String dateString) { try { long date = Long.parseLong(dateString); return new Date(date); } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) { return null; } } }