Converting a Date object to a calendar object [duplicate]

Here’s your method:

public static Calendar toCalendar(Date date){ 
  Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
  cal.setTime(date);
  return cal;
}

Everything else you are doing is both wrong and unnecessary.

BTW, Java Naming conventions suggest that method names start with a lower case letter, so it should be: dateToCalendar or toCalendar (as shown).

OK, let’s milk your code, shall we?

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
date = (Date)formatter.parse(date.toString());

DateFormat is used to convert Strings to Dates (parse()) or Dates to Strings (format()). You are using it to parse the String representation of a Date back to a Date. This can’t be right, can it?

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