Parse Date String to Some Java Object

Question

I am working in a project that reads files and processes data. There I got to work with dates for example:

1. 2012-01-10 23:13:26
2. January 13, 2012
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Answer 1

SimpleDateFormat will parse dates into Java Date objects:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

SimpleDateFormat format1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss"); // first example
SimpleDateFormat format2 = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMMM dd,yyyy"); // second example

Date d1 = format1.parse( dateStr1 );
Date d2 = format2.parse( dateStr2 );