stringToDate
public static Date stringToDate(String strDate)
throws ParseException
Deprecated.
Returns date that is represented by a string. It uses the following
representation of date. yyyy-MM-DD'T'hh:mm:ss based on the following
definition of "dateTime" attribute in XML schema which can be found at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime. A single lexical
representation, which is a subset of the lexical representations allowed
by [ISO 8601], is allowed for dateTime. This lexical representation is
the [ISO 8601] extended format CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss where "CC" represents
the century, "YY" the year, "MM" the month and "DD" the day, preceded by
an optional leading "-" sign to indicate a negative number. If the sign
is omitted, "+" is assumed. The letter "T" is the date/time separator and
"hh", "mm", "ss" represent hour, minute and second respectively.
Additional digits can be used to increase the precision of fractional
seconds if desired i.e the format ss.ss... with any number of digits
after the decimal point is supported. The fractional seconds part is
optional; other parts of the lexical form are not optional. To
accommodate year values greater than 9999 additional digits can be added
to the left of this representation. Leading zeros are required if the
year value would otherwise have fewer than four digits; otherwise they
are forbidden. The year 0000 is prohibited. The CCYY field must have at
least four digits, the MM, DD, SS, hh, mm and ss fields exactly two
digits each (not counting fractional seconds); leading zeroes must be
used if the field would otherwise have too few digits.
This representation may be immediately followed by a "Z" to indicate
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or, to indicate the time zone, i.e. the
difference between the local time and Coordinated Universal Time,
immediately followed by a sign, + or -, followed by the difference from
UTC represented as hh:mm (note: the minutes part is required). See ISO
8601 Date and Time Formats ('D) for details about legal values in the
various fields. If the time zone is included, both hours and minutes must
be present.
For example, to indicate 1:20 pm on May the 31st, 1999 for Eastern
Standard Time which is 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC),
one would write: 1999-05-31T13:20:00-05:00.
- Parameters:
strDate - String representation of date.- Throws:
ParseException - if strDate is in an invalid format.