Question

I have old code that uses new Date(dateString) to parse a date string. Compiling the code produces the deprecation warning Date(java.lang.String) in java.util.Date has been deprecated.

The javadoc unhelpfully advises me to use DateFormat.parse(), even though the DateFormat class does not have a static parse method.

Now, I know how to use SimpleDateFormat, but I want to make sure I’m getting the exact same behaviour of the deperecated Date constructor.

Answer 1

Here’s my guess (I posted as community wiki so you can vote up if I’m right):

Date parsed; try {     SimpleDateFormat format =         new SimpleDateFormat('EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy');     parsed = format.parse(dateString); } catch(ParseException pe) {     throw new IllegalArgumentException(pe); }