DateFormatter that is not picky?

Question

Does anyone know of a DateFormatter in Java that isn\'t so picky? By that I mean I could provide it multiple formats the date could be written in and if I provide it a forma

Answer 1

You can have a look at the method

DateUtils.parse(String, String[])

from apache commons / lang. It allows you to specify multiple patterns, all of which will be checked until one can successfully parse the date. (This is very similar to your own suggested usage).