Question

How to parse a Java TDate ? i want to parse this into a java Date object. The date value is 2011-11-22T00:00:00-06:00

Answer 1

You can use a SimpleDateFormat:

DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
// Set time zone, locale etc

Date date = format.parse(text);

Personally I would strongly recommend that you use Joda Time instead of the built-in Java types, but that’s a separate discussion…