Java String to Timestamp getTimeStamp(String pattern, String strDate)

Description

get Time Stamp

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static long getTimeStamp(String pattern, String strDate) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;

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

import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    private static String datePattern = "MM-dd-yyyy";

    public static long getTimeStamp(String pattern, String strDate) {
        long returnTimeStamp = 0;
        Date aDate = null;/*  w w w. j a  va 2  s. co m*/
        try {
            aDate = convertStringToDate(pattern, strDate);
        } catch (ParseException pe) {
            aDate = null;
        }
        if (aDate == null) {
            returnTimeStamp = 0;
        } else {
            returnTimeStamp = aDate.getTime();
        }
        return returnTimeStamp;
    }

    /**
     * This method generates a string representation of a date/time
     * in the format you specify on input
     *
     * @param aMask the date pattern the string is in
     * @param strDate a string representation of a date
     * @return a converted Date object
     * @see java.text.SimpleDateFormat
     * @throws ParseException
     */
    public static final Date convertStringToDate(String aMask, String strDate) throws ParseException {
        SimpleDateFormat df = null;
        Date date = null;
        df = new SimpleDateFormat(aMask);

        try {
            date = df.parse(strDate);
        } catch (ParseException pe) {
            return null;
        }

        return (date);
    }

    /**
     * This method converts a String to a date using the datePattern
     * @param strDate the date to convert (in format MM/dd/yyyy)
     * @return a date object
     * @throws ParseException
     */
    public static Date convertStringToDate(String strDate) throws ParseException {
        Date aDate = null;

        try {

            aDate = convertStringToDate(datePattern, strDate);
        } catch (ParseException pe) {
            //log.error("Could not convert '" + strDate
            //          + "' to a date, throwing exception");
            pe.printStackTrace();
            return null;

        }
        return aDate;
    }
}

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6. getTimeStamp(String style, Date date)
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