String to Date conversion

Source:

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Date;

public class ConvertStringToDate {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      String string = "January 15, 2012";

      try {
         Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(string);
         System.out.println(date);
      } catch (Exception e) {
      }

   }
}

Output:

   $ java ConvertStringToDate 
   Sun Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2012