Here you can find the source of parseDate(final String value)
static Date parseDate(final String value)
//package com.java2s; /*/*from www . ja v a2s . c o m*/ * Copyright (c) 2008-2013, Hazelcast, Inc. 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.DateFormat; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; public class Main { static final String timestampFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss.SSS"; static final String dateFormat = "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy"; static final String sqlDateFormat = "yyyy-mm-dd"; static Date parseDate(final String value) { try { return getUtilDateFormat().parse(value); } catch (ParseException e) { return throwRuntimeParseException(value, e); } } private static DateFormat getUtilDateFormat() { return new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat); } private static <T> T throwRuntimeParseException(String value, Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException("Unable to parse date from value: '" + value + "' ! Valid formats are: '" + dateFormat + "', '" + timestampFormat + "' and '" + sqlDateFormat + "'.", e); } }