Groovy String to Date

Question

I am coding this with Groovy

I am currently trying to convert a string that I have to a date without having to do anything too tedious.

String theD         


        

Answer 1

Date#parse is deprecated . The alternative is :

java.text.DateFormat#parse 

thereFore :

 new SimpleDateFormat("E MMM dd H:m:s z yyyy", Locale.ARABIC).parse(testDate)

Note that SimpleDateFormat is an implementation of DateFormat