Work with Different Date Formats

Get Global Date String from Existing/Current String Date  
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call Function
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getGlobalDateStringFromString("22/11/2016","dd/mm/yyyy");

Function body
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public String getGlobalDateStringFromString(String strdate,String formatDate) {
    Date date = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();

    if (!strdate.equalsIgnoreCase("")) {
        SimpleDateFormat formatCompare = new SimpleDateFormat(formatDate);
        try {
            date = formatCompare.parse(strdate);
        } catch (ParseException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
    SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd yyyy hh:mm a zz");
    simpleDateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
    return simpleDateFormat.format(date);
}


Get Global Date String from Existing/Current Date  

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public String getGlobalDateString(Date date) {
    if (date == null)
        date = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
    SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd yyyy hh:mm a zz");
    simpleDateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
    return simpleDateFormat.format(date);
}