java version of python-dateutil

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Published on 2013-10-18T16:27:40Z Indexed on 2013/10/21 21:54 UTC
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Python has a very handy package that can parse nearly any unambiguous date and provides helpful error messages on a parse failure, python-dateutil. Comparison to the SimpleDateFormat class is not favorable - AFAICT SimpleDateFormat can only handle one exact date format and the error messages have no granularity.

I've looked through the Joda API but it appears Joda is the same way - only one explicit format can be parsed at a time.

Is there any package or library that reproduces the python-dateutil behavior? Or am I missing something WRT Joda/SimpleDateFormat?

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