Parse any date in Java

Question

I know this question is asked quite a bit, and obviously you can\'t parse any arbitrary date. However, I find that the python-dateutil library is able to parse every date I

Answer 1

What I have seen done is a Date util class that contains several typical date formats. So, when DateUtil.parse(date) is called, it tries to parse the date with each date format internally and only throws exceptions if none of the internal formats can parse it.

It is basically a brute force approach to your problem.