How to initialize a variable of date type in java?

Question

import java.util.Date;
Date firstDate; 

I don\'t know how to intialize the firstDate for example for String you say

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Answer 1

To initialize to current date, you could do something like:

Date firstDate = new Date();

To get it from String, you could use SimpleDateFormat like:

String dateInString = "10-Jan-2016";
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
try {
    Date date = formatter.parse(dateInString);
    System.out.println(date);
    System.out.println(formatter.format(date));
} catch (ParseException e) {
    //handle exception if date is not in "dd-MMM-yyyy" format
}