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Re: Date type to/from string

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From: Tad Frysinger
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 00:00
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In article <3505D755.B6F361B@ForAWhile.com>, Broken@ForAWhile.com says...
> Tad Frysinger wrote:
> 
> > Any other ideas?
> >
> 
> use the Calendar and/or GregorianCalendar classes.
> 
> you can do this sort of thing:
> 
>   Date myDate = new Date();
>   SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss
> yyyy");
>   String myStringDate = df.format(myDate);
> 
> with the classes mentioned above, you can reconstruct myStringDate into
> a date.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
Well, maybe I missed something, but I was all over Calendar and 
GregorianCalendar, and didn't see a way to construct a *Date* from a 
string (the default toString() method of Date uses a formatter very 
similar to what you posted).

I'll look again.
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From: tfrysinger@earthlink.net (Tad Frysinger)
Subject: Re: Date type to/from string
Date: 1998/03/11
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