How to initialize a variable of date type in java?

Question

import java.util.Date;
Date firstDate; 

I don\'t know how to intialize the firstDate for example for String you say

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Answer 1

To parse a Date from a String you can choose which format you would like it to have. For example:

public Date StringToDate(String s){

    Date result = null;
    try{
        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
        result  = dateFormat.parse(s);
    }

    catch(ParseException e){
        e.printStackTrace();

    }
    return result ;
}

If you would like to use this method now, you will have to use something like this

Date date = StringToDate("2015-12-06 17:03:00");

For more explanation you should check out http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html