Convert a date of String type to java.util.Date type without using SimpleDateFormat or Calendar

Question

I'm fetching a date which is of String type but I need the Date type of it. I'm working in a gwt project so I cannot use SimpleDateFormat or Calendar (which doesn't work in the runtime and throws source code not found exception)

new Date(stringDate) is deprecated so any other way I could do it?

Answer 1

Consider using DateTimeFormat: http://www.gwtproject.org/javadoc/latest/com/google/gwt/i18n/client/DateTimeFormat.html

Answer 2

check this

String myString = "Thu Nov 18 11:53:45 BST 2014";
DateTimeFormat sdf = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("EEE MM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy");
Date myDate = sdf.parse(myString);

For more details check this
I hope this could help!

Answer 3

You can use the parse() function of DateTimeFormat class from com.google.gwt.i18n.client package http://www.gwtproject.org/javadoc/latest/com/google/gwt/i18n/shared/DateTimeFormat.html#parse%28java.lang.String%29

Answer 4

Assuming you have a Date (java.sql.Date) in the format yyy-mm-dd you can call

Date.valueOf("1996-12-12") which returns a Date instance

If you use Date (java.util.Date) you can call

new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()) which returns a Date instance

Edit GWT has DateTimeFormat which you can use