Java String to Date toDate(String d)

Description

to Date

License

LGPL

Declaration

public static Date toDate(String d) throws ParseException 

Method Source Code

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

import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    private static SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
    private static SimpleDateFormat dfUTC = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");

    public static Date toDate(String d) throws ParseException {
        return toDate(d, false);
    }

    public static Date toDate(String d, boolean utc) throws ParseException {
        return d == null ? null : "now()".equals(d) ? new Date() : utc ? dfUTC.parse(d) : df.parse(d);
    }
}

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