import java.util.Date;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

public class TestDate {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
        String s = "15-05-2005 5:55:55";

        SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss");
        Date date = df.parse(s);

        System.out.println(date);
    }
}

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1. You may want to look at Joda-Time http://joda-time.sourceforge.net

   Comment by Stephen Colebourne — 22 July 2006 #

2. Don’t forget to call date.setLenient(false) before calling parse to have a strict matching.
   Without this, you can have strange result if your date string is a user input.

   Comment by Franck Arnulfo — 23 July 2006 #

3. Ooops, call df.setLenient(false)

   Comment by Franck Arnulfo — 23 July 2006 #

4. Thats so true I recall the amount of time it took me to google out a good example of how to parse a string into date format some years back.

   There is a site nowadays called http://javaalmanac.com/ that provides some really nice examples of how to perform useful stuff in Java , its great time saver for beginners.

   Comment by javed — 24 July 2006 #

5. Javed,

   I sometimes refer to Java Almanac myself, for it is indeed an excellent resource.

   Eddy

   Comment by Eddy — 24 July 2006 #

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