Here you can find the source of parseDate(String s)
public final static Date parseDate(String s)
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS HEADER. * * Copyright (c) 2013,2014 by Peter Pilgrim, Addiscombe, Surrey, XeNoNiQUe UK * * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the GNU GPL v3.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at: * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt * * Developers:/* w ww. j a v a 2s. c o m*/ * Peter Pilgrim -- design, development and implementation * -- Blog: http://www.xenonique.co.uk/blog/ * -- Twitter: @peter_pilgrim * * Contributors: * *******************************************************************************/ import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; public class Main { private final static SimpleDateFormat FORMATTER = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd-hh:mm:ss Z"); public final static Date parseDate(String s) { try { Date date = FORMATTER.parse(s); return date; } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException("unable parse date time from string [" + s + "]", e); } } }