public static Date toSimpleDate(String strDate) throws ParseException {
		SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd", Locale.getDefault());
		return simpleDateFormat.parse(strDate);
	}
Convert string date to Date with {@value #SIMPLE_DATE_FORMAT}.

@param strDate	date string
@return date
@throws ParseException
            thrown when the given strDate is not {@link #SIMPLE_DATE_FORMAT}
ngrinder-core/src/main/java/org/ngrinder/common/util/DateUtils.java