Java String to Date toDateFormat(String dateFormat, TimeZone tz, Locale locale)

Description

Returns an initialized DateFormat object.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
dateFormat	optional format string
tz	a parameter
locale	can be null if dateFormat is not null

Return

DateFormat object

Declaration

public static DateFormat toDateFormat(String dateFormat, TimeZone tz, Locale locale) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Apache License 

import java.text.DateFormat;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.TimeZone;

public class Main {
    /**// ww  w  . ja v  a2 s  .c om
     * Returns an initialized DateFormat object.
     *
     * @param dateFormat
     *            optional format string
     * @param tz
     * @param locale
     *            can be null if dateFormat is not null
     * @return DateFormat object
     */
    public static DateFormat toDateFormat(String dateFormat, TimeZone tz, Locale locale) {
        DateFormat df = null;
        if (dateFormat == null) {
            df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, locale);
        } else {
            df = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat);
        }
        df.setTimeZone(tz);
        return df;
    }
}

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7. toDates(DateFormat format, String[] values)
8. toDateString(Calendar cal)
9. toDateString(Date date)