how to parse string to date with defualt format?

[Simpson Kumar]

is there any possibilities to parse a string to date if we don't specify the format in SDF?

In database we have different formats and we need to convert each one convert to date with common format(something like default), is there any possibilities to do in java?

[Jesper de Jong]

Parsing a date string without knowing the format is impossible in general. Suppose you get the string "07/08/2009" - how can you see if this means 7 August 2009 (DD/MM/YYYY) or 8 July 2009 (MM/DD/YYYY)?

You could do it by trying to parse a string with a different number of formats, but this will not solve the problem of ambiguous dates.

There is no method in the standard Java API to parse a string into a Date object without knowing the format.

[pete stein]

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