title: unix "date --date=..." in Java
body: <p>I there a way to instantiate <strike>a Date object</strike> any date representation in Java with input similar to the Unix </p>
  
  <pre><code>date --date='...'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>that can figure out things like <em>yesterday, tomorrow, next thursday</em> etc?</p>
  
  <p>I've tried to search this on Google, but it doesn't come up with anything related, as it's quite hard to explain what I'm looking for.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong> probably it was misleading, I don't want a suggestion on how to create a method myself, I'm looking for a working library/code.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT 2</strong> having in mind that PHP <code>strtotime</code> does exactly the same thing, I searched and this time it gave me a great <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1268174/phps-strtotime-in-java">suggestion</a> and I'm probably gonna stick to it.</p>