Java Parse Date parseDate(DateFormat df, String dateStr)

Description

parse date as ET or UTC

License

Open Source License

Declaration

protected static Date parseDate(DateFormat df, String dateStr) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.*;

public class Main {
    private static final TimeZone ET = TimeZone.getTimeZone("US/Eastern");

    /**/*  w w w .  j a v  a 2  s. c  om*/
     * parse date as ET or UTC
     */
    protected static Date parseDate(DateFormat df, String dateStr) {
        Date date = null;
        if (dateStr != null && dateStr.length() > 0) {
            try {
                if (dateStr.contains("UTC")) {
                    date = df.parse(dateStr);
                } else if (dateStr.contains("ET")) {
                    // parse as winter time
                    date = df.parse(dateStr.replace("ET", "EST"));
                    // EDT - summer, EST - winter
                    // daylight savings is summer time
                    if (ET.inDaylightTime(date)) {
                        // reparse as summer time
                        date = df.parse(dateStr.replace("ET", "EDT"));
                    }
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }
            //System.out.println("date " + dateStr + " -> " + date);
        }
        return date;
    }
}

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