/**
* Parse a date from a string. Because the backend and the UI disagreed for a while about the
* standard date format to use, the code has to be able to parse either format
*
* @param dateString
* @param defaultDate
* @return
*/
private DateTime parseDate(String dateString, String defaultDateString) {
if (dateString == null || dateString.length() < 1) {
return DateHandler.getDateFromString(defaultDateString);
}
try {
return DateHandler.getDateFromString(dateString);
} catch (Exception e) {
try {
return OLD_FORMAT.parseDateTime(dateString);
} catch (Exception e1) {
}
}
return DateHandler.getDateFromString(defaultDateString);
}
