DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss");
Date d = (Date)formatter.parse(someDate);

public class FlexibleDateParser {
    private List<ThreadLocal<SimpleDateFormat>> threadLocals = new  ArrayList<ThreadLocal<SimpleDateFormat>>();

    public FlexibleDateParser(List<String> formats, final TimeZone tz){
        threadLocals.clear();
        for (final String format : formats) {
            ThreadLocal<SimpleDateFormat> dateFormatTL = new ThreadLocal<SimpleDateFormat>() {
                protected SimpleDateFormat initialValue() {
                    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
                    sdf.setTimeZone(tz);
                    sdf.setLenient(false);
                    return sdf;
                }
            };
            threadLocals.add(dateFormatTL);
        }
    }

    public Date parseDate(String dateStr) throws ParseException {
        for (ThreadLocal<SimpleDateFormat> tl : threadLocals) {
            SimpleDateFormat sdf = tl.get();
            try {
                return sdf.parse(dateStr);
            } catch (ParseException e) {
                // Ignore and try next date parser
            }
        }
        // All parsers failed
        return null;
    }
}

public static Date parseDate(String str,
                         String[] parsePatterns)
                  throws ParseException

public Date parseDate(String strDate) throws Exception
{
    if (strDate != null && !strDate.isEmpty())
    {
        SimpleDateFormat[] formats =
                new SimpleDateFormat[] {new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy"), new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd"),
                        new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy")};

        Date parsedDate = null;

        for (int i = 0; i < formats.length; i++)
        {
            try
            {
                parsedDate = formats[i].parse(strDate);
                return parsedDate;
            }
            catch (ParseException e)
            {
                continue;
            }
        }
    }
    throw new Exception("Unknown date format: '" + strDate + "'");
}

String dateToConvert(String date) {
        String strDate = "";
        try {
            //create SimpleDateFormat object with source string date format
            DateFormat sdfSource = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

            //parse the string into Date object
            Date d = sdfSource.parse(date);
            LocalLog.e(LOG_TAG, d.toString());
            //create SimpleDateFormat object with desired date format
            SimpleDateFormat sdfDestination = new SimpleDateFormat(AppConstants.UNIVERSAL_DATE_FORMAT);

            //parse the date into another format
            strDate = sdfDestination.format(d);

            LocalLog.e(LOG_TAG, strDate);

        } catch (ParseException pe) {
            System.out.println("Parse Exception : " + pe);
        }
        return strDate;
    }

public  String compareDate( PaymentTxnRequest request ) throws ParseException {
        Date debitDate= request.getPaymentTxn().getCrValDt();
        Date now = new Date();
        String response="";
        SimpleDateFormat sdfDate = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
        String strCurrDate = sdfDate.format(now);
        String strDebitDate = sdfDate.format(debitDate);
        System.out.println("Current Date: " + strCurrDate);
        Date currentDate =  new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").parse(strCurrDate);
        Date txnDate =  new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").parse(strDebitDate);
        System.out.println("C -> "+currentDate);
        System.out.println("C -> "+txnDate);
         if (txnDate!=null){
         if (currentDate.equals(txnDate))
         {
             System.out.println("Valid Txn");
             response="valid";
         }
         if (currentDate.after(txnDate))
         {
            System.out.println("--> Not  Valid TXN Past");
            response="notValid";
         }
        if (currentDateenter code here.before(txnDate)){
            System.out.println("Future Valid TXn");
             response="future";
        }
     }
        return response;
    }