Parsing and setting a date

Question

I have dates like -

15-JUL-10 00:00:00

12-AUG-10 23:59:59

24-SEP-10 18:13:18

How do I easily parse these sort of dates and assign to a Date object?

Answer 1

Use SimpleDateFormat.

DateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss");
Date date = fmt.parse("15-JUL-10 00:00:00");

Answer 2

Using java.text.SimpleDateFormat:

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss");
df.parse(dateString);