Java Utililty Methods String to Date

List of utility methods to do String to Date

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Method

DatestringToDateForIng(String date_str)
string To Date For Ing 
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(datePatternForIng);
try {
    return format.parse(date_str);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    throw new Exception("errors.date.invalid");
DateStringToDateFormat(String str, String format)
String To Date Format 
Date dt = new Date();
if (str != null && !str.equals("")) {
    SimpleDateFormat transFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
    dt = transFormat.parse(str);
return dt;
DatestringToDateInTimeZone(String time, String timeZone)
string To Date In Time Zone 
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyMMddHHmm");
dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone(timeZone));
Date d = null;
try {
    d = dateFormat.parse(time);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
return d;
DatestringToDateMetaData(String dateString)
String to date meta data. 
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ss.S");
try {
    return sdf.parse(dateString);
} catch (NullPointerException ex) {
    return null;
} catch (ParseException ex) {
    return null;
DatestringToDateTemporalCoverage(String dateString)
string To Date Temporal Coverage 
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
try {
    return sdf.parse(dateString);
} catch (NullPointerException ex) {
    return null;
} catch (ParseException ex) {
    return null;
DatestringToDatetime(String str, String format)
string To Datetime 
if (str == null || str.equals(""))
    return null;
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
try {
    return sdf.parse(str);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    return null;
...
DatestringToDatetime(String string)
string To Datetime 
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date dateTime = dateFormat.parse(string);
return dateTime;
DatestringToDateTime(String stringDate, String format)
string To Date Time 
if (stringDate == null) {
    return null;
try {
    return getFormat(format).parse(stringDate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    throw new RuntimeException(e);
DatestringToDateWithFormat(String stringToConvert, String dateFormat)
string To Date With Format 
if (stringToConvert != null) {
    try {
        DateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat);
        Date date = simpleDateFormat.parse(stringToConvert);
        return date;
    } catch (ParseException e) {
return new Date(0);
DatestrMSShortToDate(String str_date)
str MS Short To Date 
try {
    return (Date) formatterMSShort.parse(str_date);
} catch (Exception e) {
    System.out.println("StrToDateSSShort Exception :" + e + " " + str_date);
    return null;