Java Parse Date parseDate(String dateString)

Description

parse Date

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static Date parseDate(String dateString) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2014 OSSMETER Partners.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:/*  w  w  w  .j  a va  2s  .c  o m*/
 *    Yannis Korkontzelos - Implementation.
 *******************************************************************************/

import java.text.ParsePosition;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    static SimpleDateFormat[] sdfList = new SimpleDateFormat[] {
            new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz"),
            new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz"),
            new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm zzz (Z)"),
            new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm zzz"),
            new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"),
            new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"),
            new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss Z"),
            new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy") };

    public static Date parseDate(String dateString) {
        for (SimpleDateFormat sdf : sdfList) {
            ParsePosition ps = new ParsePosition(0);
            Date result = sdf.parse(dateString, ps);
            if (ps.getIndex() != 0)
                return result;
        }
        System.err.println("\t\t" + dateString + " cannot be parsed!\n");
        return null;
    }
}

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