Java string to date conversion
That’s the hard way, and those java.util.Date setter methods have been deprecated since Java 1.1 (1997). Moreover, the whole java.util.Date class was de-facto deprecated (discommended) since introduction of java.time API in Java 8 (2014). Simply format the date using DateTimeFormatter with a pattern matching the input string (the tutorial is available here). In your specific case of “January 2, 2010” as the input … Read more