A "Pre Java 8" and Java 8 example of parsing a date/time string

ParsingExample.java

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;

public class ParsingExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // Based off of:
        // https://www.mkyong.com/java/how-to-convert-string-to-date-java/

        String dateInString = "2017-05-31T12:52:21.0000Z";

        // Pre Java 8
        System.out.println("Pre Java 8");
        try {

            //Parse the String
            SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSS'Z'");
            
            //SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd:HH:mm:ss");
            Date date = formatter.parse(dateInString);
            
            System.out.println("Get the Month Day and Year Fields");
            Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
            calendar.setTime(date);
            
            System.out.println("Month :: " + calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH));
            System.out.println("Day   :: " + calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
            System.out.println("Year  :: " + calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR));

            
            System.out.println();
            System.out.println("Write the Date using a different format");
            SimpleDateFormat newformatter = new SimpleDateFormat("'Month' :: MMM, 'Day' :: dd, 'Year' :: yyyy");
            System.out.println(newformatter.format(date));

        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        // Java 8
        DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSS'Z'");
        
        //default, ISO_LOCAL_DATE
        LocalDateTime localDate = LocalDateTime.parse(dateInString, formatter);

        System.out.println();
        System.out.println("Get the Month Day and Year Fields");
        System.out.println("Month :: " + localDate.getMonth());
        System.out.println("Day   :: " + localDate.getDayOfMonth());
        System.out.println("Year  :: " + localDate.getYear());

        
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println("Write the Date using a different format");
        DateTimeFormatter newformatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("'Month' :: MMM, 'Day' :: dd, 'Year' :: yyyy");
        System.out.println(newformatter.format(localDate));

        System.out.println(localDate);
    }
}