How to sanity check a date in Java [closed]

Answer 1

looks like SimpleDateFormat is not checking the pattern strictly even after setLenient(false); method is applied on it, so i have used below method to validate if the date inputted is valid date or not as per supplied pattern.

import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.time.format.DateTimeParseException;
public boolean isValidFormat(String dateString, String pattern) {
    boolean valid = true;
    DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(pattern);
    try {
        formatter.parse(dateString);
    } catch (DateTimeParseException e) {
        valid = false;
    }
    return valid;
}