get around Date, blow your date's mind, Customize

This is one sweet utility that I have used over and over again. Honestly I keep forgetting the exact way everytime I need to format date(the java type ;)

Nice to keep it in a little utility program inside the utility package of your project

Example 1:
  Date exampleDate;
  exampleDate = formatDateTime(useFormat);
  private Date formatDateTime(String dateStr){
    Date newDate = null;
    DateFormat outdfm = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss");//"MM-dd-yy HH:mm:ss"//MMM dd hh:mm:ss yyyy
    try{
     newDate = outdfm.parse(dateStr);
    }
    catch (ParseException e){
     e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return newDate;
   }
   
  Example 2:
  Date curDate = new Date();
  Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
  String dateStr = "2009-03-19T10:10:51";
  curDate = formatDateTime(dateStr);
  cal.setTime(curDate);
  private static Date formatDateTime(String dateStr){
     Date newDate = null;
     //DateFormat outdfm = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss");//"MM-dd-yy HH:mm:ss"//MMM dd hh:mm:ss yyyy
     DateFormat outdfm = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd'T'hh:mm:ss");// 2009-03-19T10:10:51//"yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' hh:mm:ss z"->> 1996.07.10 AD at 15:08:56 PDT
     try{
      newDate = outdfm.parse(dateStr);
     }catch (ParseException e){
      e.printStackTrace();
     }
     return newDate;
  }

Thanks for reading, and Thanks for stopping by!!

~Nirmal

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