The Java Date class is a complete mystery to me. Why does it have to be so complicated?
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I needed to parse an XML DateTime string (like this: "2011-02-10T13:40:26.33") in Java.
In C#, it just works.
DateTime.Parse("2010/01/01") and DateTime.Parse("2010-01-01") ? sure, no problem. It'll figure it out.
But in Java? Date.Parse(string) returns a long.... what? Why?
Now I'm no expert in Java, I haven't done it in a while, but I don't want to spend 30 minutes to an hour reading on why.
So if you want a quick solution, here's one:
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class DateAdapter {
public static Date parseDate(String s)
throws java.text.ParseException{
SimpleDateFormat dfm = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z");
return dfm.parse(s);
}
}
