Question

I have a set of strings. This strings are actually “year”s. for example: "1967","1872","2012",…

I want to create a SimpleDate instance from each of these. Is there a way to create a SimpleDate from a year String?

I have a rather hacky solution for this, which is attaching "-00-00" to my year strings and parsing it into a a SimpleDate. I need a more non-hacky way of doing this.
Thx

Answer 1

I am not sure but maybe you asking about something like this

SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat();
sdf.applyPattern("YYYY");
Date d=null;
try {
    d = sdf.parse("1999");
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println(d);