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John Peter
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Parsing DateTime String to Date Object in Core Java
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SimpleDateFormat utility class is used to parse and format the Date from string and date object. parse and format methods are used to handle the date information mainly.

SimpleDateFormat is a class of java.text.SimpleDateFormat. Below example explained how to parse and format a date using SimpleDateFormat only with Date informations Month, Day and Year.

Example
new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").parse("12/12/1998");
DateStringParser
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

public class DateStringParser {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws InterruptedException, Exception{
        //Define the input date format with SimpleDateFormat Constructor
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
        
        String inputDate = "29/12/2014";
        System.out.println(sdf.parse(inputDate));
    }
}
Output 
Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 IST 2014
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