string to localdate in java

1package com.mkyong.date;
2
3import java.time.LocalDate;
4
5public class JavaDateExample1 {
6
7    public static void main(String[] args) {
8
9        String date = "2016-08-16";
10
11        //default, ISO_LOCAL_DATE
12        LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.parse(date);
13
14        System.out.println(localDate);
15
16    }
17}
18Copy

1// Localdate to Date
2Date.from(localdate.atStartOfDay(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant())

1
2  DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d/MM/yyyy");
3  String date = "16/08/2016";
4
5  //convert String to LocalDate
6  LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.parse(date, formatter);
7

1public LocalDateTime convertToLocalDateTimeViaMilisecond(Date dateToConvert) {
2    return Instant.ofEpochMilli(dateToConvert.getTime())
3      .atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault())
4      .toLocalDateTime();
5}

1Date yourDate = new Date(); // this will be your java.util.Date instance to convert
2LocalDate date = yourDate.toInstant().atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toLocalDate();
3