The Date representing never. Though this is a concrete value, most callers are adviced to avoid depending on the actual value.

Parses a string into a java.util.Date using the default locale. Since this parser also supports relative formats (e.g. "yesterday") the caller can specify the reference date. These types of strings can be parsed:

• "never"
• "now"
• "yesterday"
• "(x) years|months|weeks|days|hours|minutes|seconds ago"
  Multiple specs can be combined like in "2 weeks 3 days ago". Instead of ' ' one can use '.' to separate the words
• "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z" (ISO)
• "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z" (RFC)
• "yyyy-MM-dd"
• "yyyy.MM.dd"
• "MM/dd/yyyy",
• "dd.MM.yyyy"
• "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss yyyy Z" (DEFAULT)
• "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss yyyy" (LOCAL)

Parameters

dateStr:String

the string to be parsed

now:Calendar

the base date which is used for the calculation of relative formats. E.g. if baseDate is "25.8.2012" then parsing of the string "1 week ago" would result in a date corresponding to "18.8.2012". This is used when a JGit command calls this parser often but wants a consistent starting point for calls.
If set to null then the current time will be used instead.

Returns:Date

the parsed java.util.Date

Exceptions

ParseException:

if the given dateStr was not recognized

Parses a string into a java.util.Date using the given locale. Since this parser also supports relative formats (e.g. "yesterday") the caller can specify the reference date. These types of strings can be parsed:

• "never"
• "now"
• "yesterday"
• "(x) years|months|weeks|days|hours|minutes|seconds ago"
  Multiple specs can be combined like in "2 weeks 3 days ago". Instead of ' ' one can use '.' to separate the words
• "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z" (ISO)
• "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z" (RFC)
• "yyyy-MM-dd"
• "yyyy.MM.dd"
• "MM/dd/yyyy",
• "dd.MM.yyyy"
• "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss yyyy Z" (DEFAULT)
• "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss yyyy" (LOCAL)

Parameters

dateStr:String

the string to be parsed

now:Calendar

the base date which is used for the calculation of relative formats. E.g. if baseDate is "25.8.2012" then parsing of the string "1 week ago" would result in a date corresponding to "18.8.2012". This is used when a JGit command calls this parser often but wants a consistent starting point for calls.
If set to null then the current time will be used instead.

locale:Locale

locale to be used to parse the date string

Returns:Date

the parsed java.util.Date

Exceptions

ParseException:

if the given dateStr was not recognized

Since

3.2