Module io.sf.jclf.text

Package io.sf.jclf.text

Class DateFormatUtil

java.lang.Object

io.sf.jclf.text.DateFormatUtil

public class DateFormatUtil
extends Object

Convenience class for DateFormat utility functions

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DateFormatUtil()	Generic utility to parse dates.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Date	guessDate(String formatted_date)	Guesses a date from a String, not knowing the format in advance.
Date	guessDate(Date refdate, String formatted_date)	Try to guess a date from formatted_date, using refdate as a reference.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

DateFormatUtil

public DateFormatUtil()

Generic utility to parse dates.

Method Details

guessDate

public Date guessDate(String formatted_date)

Guesses a date from a String, not knowing the format in advance. Assumes that the date to be guessed is less than SANITY_INTERVAL (20 yrs) from now. Use with caution. TODO: Use locale information, if available, to guess the date.

Parameters:

formatted_date - the date to parse.

Returns:

the parsed date, or null if could not be parsed.

guessDate

public Date guessDate(Date refdate,
 String formatted_date)

Try to guess a date from formatted_date, using refdate as a reference.

Parameters:

refdate - the reference date. If the parsed date is not within a sanity interval, it will be rejected and a different parsing format will be used.

formatted_date - the string to parse.

Returns:

the parsed date, or null if could not be parsed.