Java Utililty Methods String to Time

Date now = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
return sdf.format(now);

return parseMysql(s).getTime();

SimpleDateFormat myFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
java.util.Date ssDateTime = myFormatter.parse(sDateTime);
java.util.Date eeDateTime = myFormatter.parse(eDateTime);
long l = (eeDateTime.getTime() - ssDateTime.getTime());
long day = l / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
return (int) day;

SimpleDateFormat shijian = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
long longtime = 0;
try {
    longtime = shijian.parse(time).getTime();
} catch (Exception e) {
return longtime;

return getDateTime(time, DEFAULT_FORMAT_TIME);

String string = sdf.format(getCurrentDateTime());
string += " " + time;
Date date = null;
try {
    date = sdf2.parse(string);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
return date;

List<String> dayList = new ArrayList<String>();
try {
    SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    Date startDate = df.parse(startTime);
    Date endDate = df.parse(endTime);
    String now = "";
    for (long i = startDate.getTime(); i <= endDate.getTime(); i += (long) 24 * (long) 3600 * (long) 1000) {
        Date date = new Date(i);
...

String output = input;
try {
    String token = "{date}";
    if (isNonEmptyString(output) && output.contains(token)) {
        int tlen = token.length();
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(output);
        int p1f = sb.indexOf(token);
        while (p1f > -1) {
...

DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance();
Date date = null;
try {
    date = df.parse(strDate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
return date;
...

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddhhssmm");
Date date = new Date();
try {
    date = dateFormat.parse(time);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
return date;
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