NumberFormatException while parsing date with SimpleDateFormat.parse()

Question

Have a function that creates a time-only Date object. (why this is required is a long story which is irrelevant in this context but I need to compare to some stuff in XML wo

Answer 1

You can use "sychronized" block to make it thread safe. Something like:

synchronized (lastUpdatedFormat) {
            date = 
         lastUpdatedFormat.parse(lastUpdatedFormat.format(currentDate));
        }