Java String to Date toDate(String createdAt)

Description

to Date

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static Date toDate(String createdAt) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**//  w  w w.  j av a 2 s . co  m
 * Copyright (C) 2010 Peter Karich <jetwick_@_pannous_._info>
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;

import java.util.TimeZone;

public class Main {
    private static final String localDateTimeFormatString = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.S'Z'";

    public static Date toDate(String createdAt) {
        try {
            return createLocalFormat().parse(createdAt);
        } catch (ParseException ex) {
            throw new RuntimeException(ex);
        }
    }

    public static DateFormat createLocalFormat() {
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(localDateTimeFormatString);
        df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
        return df;
    }
}

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