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

JodaTime is largely considered the de-facto standard for date-time processing in Java - they're working to get it added to the next version of the Java library (well, effectively).

For getting JodaTime dates from strings, you're going to want to look into the DateTimeFormat class.