fitgoodies-core/src/main/java/de/cologneintelligence/fitgoodies/date/FitDateHelper.java
public Date getDate(final String string, final String formatString, final String localeName) throws ParseException {
		return getDateFormat(formatString, parseLocale(localeName)).parse(string);
	}
public Date getDate(final String string, final String formatString, final String localeName) throws ParseException {
		return getDateFormat(formatString, parseLocale(localeName)).parse(string);
	}
public Date getDate ( final String string , final String formatString , final String localeName ) throws ParseException { return getDateFormat ( formatString , parseLocale ( localeName ) ) . parse ( string ) ; }
Parses {@code string} and returns a valid Date object.
For parsing, a {@link SimpleDateFormat} object is used.

@param string       the string which represents the date
@param formatString a valid SimpleDateFormat format string
@param localeName   the name of the locale to use, for example en_US
@return the date which is represented by {@code string}
@throws ParseException thrown, if {@code string} can not be parsed.
Parses { @code string } and returns a valid Date object . For parsing a { @link SimpleDateFormat } object is used .