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

You could try dateparser.

It can recognize any String automatically, and parse it into Date, Calendar, LocalDateTime, OffsetDateTime correctly and quickly(1us~1.5us).

It doesn't based on any natural language analyzer or SimpleDateFormat or regex.Pattern.

With it, you don't have to prepare any appropriate patterns like yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ or yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZZ:

Date date = DateParserUtils.parseDate("2015-04-29T10:15:00.500+0000");
Calendar calendar = DateParserUtils.parseCalendar("2015-04-29T10:15:00.500Z");
LocalDateTime dateTime = DateParserUtils.parseDateTime("2015-04-29 10:15:00.500 +00:00");

All works fine, please enjoy it.