Java Utililty Methods String to Date

String sRealFormat = sFormat;
if ((sRealFormat == null) || sRealFormat.equals("")) {
    sRealFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS";
SimpleDateFormat UTCFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(sRealFormat);
Date dDate = new Date(); 
if ((date != null) && (date.length() != 0)) {
    try {
...

SimpleDateFormat simple = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
try {
    return simple.parse(date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    return null;

return new SimpleDateFormat(inputDateFormat).parse(date);

try {
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(pDateFormat);
    formatter.setLenient(false);
    return formatter.parse(pValue);
} catch (Exception e) {
    return null;

SimpleDateFormat date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
Date parse = null;
str = str.replace("T", " ");
try {
    parse = date.parse(str);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
return parse;

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date date = null;
try {
    date = sdf.parse(da);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    try {
        sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
        date = sdf.parse(da);
...

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(formatStr);
Date date = null;
date = format.parse(dateStr);
return date;

String str = yyyyMMddHH_NOT_.format(new Date());
return str;

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
sdf.setTimeZone(CURRENT_TIME_ZONE);
return sdf.parse(date);

DateFormat mediumDateFormat;
Date sDate;
try {
    mediumDateFormat = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance();
    String date = String.valueOf(l);
    sDate = new Date(Long.parseLong(date));
} catch (Exception ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
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