Java - How to check if a value is of type Date

Question

I have a project requirement. There are values in a .txt as -

 02/01/2017 00:00:00

Now I need to have some rules to check if this value in the

Answer 1

Use this to check date

String sDate1="31/12/1998 00:00:00";  
try{
  Date date1=new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss").parse(sDate1);  `
} 
catch(Exception e)
{
  //Not a date..
}