Java String to Date stringToDate(String text)

Description

string To Date

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static Date stringToDate(String text) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;

public class Main {
    public static final String ISO_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'";
    private static final TimeZone UTC = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");

    public static Date stringToDate(String text) {
        try {
            SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(ISO_FORMAT);
            format.setTimeZone(UTC);
            return format.parse(text);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            return null;
        }
    }
}

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