What is the best way to parse a date in MM/DD/YY format and adjust it to the current / previous century?

Question

One of our customers wants to be able to enter a date with only 2 digits for the year component. The date will be in the past, so we want it to work for the previous century

Answer 1

Date deliverDate = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy").parse(deliverDateString);
String dateString2 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(deliverDate);

Working for me.