How To Parse Multiple dates in Java

Parsing a single date like 30 March 1970 can be achieve by using parse() Method of DateFormat and SimpleDateFormat classes.

Date

Java String to Single Date Example

1. import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;  
2. import java.util.Date;  
3. public class StringToDateExample1 {  
4. public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception {  
5.     String sDate1="31/12/1998";  
6.     Date date1=new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").parse(sDate1);  
7.     System.out.println(sDate1+"\t"+date1);  
8. } 
9. } 

Convert Multiple dates to date format

Example of converting multiple format dates in date format from Arraylist, database (dd/mm/yyyy, mm/dd/yyyy, EEE MMM d yyyy) 

1. import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;  
2. import java.util.Date;  
3. import java.text.DateFormat;  
4. import java.text.ParseException;  
5. import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;  
6. import java.util.Arrays;
7. import java.util.List;
8. 
   
9. public class StringToMultipleDateExample {  
10. public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception {  
11. SimpleDateFormat sdf[] = new SimpleDateFormat[] { 
12. new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"),
13. new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm"), 
14. new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm"),
15. new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss a"), 
16. new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy"),
17. new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d yyyy"), 
18. new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d yyyy HH:mm:ss 'GMT'Z"),
19. new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd yyyy hh:mm a"), 
20. new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d hh:mm"),
21. new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d hh:mm:ss a zzz yyyy"),
22. new SimpleDateFormat("EEEEEE MMMMMM dd yyyy h:mm a") 
23. };
24. 
    
25.                   // Adding dates in multiple format 
1.  List<String> list = Arrays.asList(new String[] { 
26. "11-03-2021", 
27. "11/03/2021 12:01:08 PM",
28.                                 "11/03/2021 12:01", 
29. "Thu Mar 11 2021", 
30. "Thu Mar 11 2021 12:01:08 GMT+0530", 
31. "Thu Mar 11 2021 12:01 PM",
32. "Thu Mar 11 12:01:08 PM IST 2021",
33. "Thursday March 11 2021 12:01 PM" });
34.                 //print all received dates from ParseDate() Funtion and Print Them
35. for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
36. System.out.println(parseDate(list.get(i), sdf).toString()+"\n");
37. }
38. }
40. public static Date parseDate(String value, DateFormat... formatters) {
41. Date date = null;
42. for (DateFormat formatter : formatters) {
43. try {
44. date = formatter.parse(value);
45. break;
46. } catch (ParseException e) {
47. }
48. }
49. return date;
50. }
}