fitgoodies-core/src/main/java/de/cologneintelligence/fitgoodies/date/FitDateHelper.java
public Date getDate(final String string) throws ParseException {
		return getDateFormat(format, locale).parse(string);
	}
public Date getDate(final String string) throws ParseException {
		return getDateFormat(format, locale).parse(string);
	}
Parses {@code string} and returns a valid Date object.
For parsing, a {@link SimpleDateFormat} object is used.

@param string the string which represents the date
@return the date which is represented by {@code string}
@throws ParseException thrown, if {@code string} can not be parsed.