Convert java.time.LocalDate into java.util.Date type

Try this solution:

Date date = Date.from(localDate.atStartOfDay(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant());

Consider this  date choicer uses the system default timezone to convert dates into strings.

Here use efficiency  class  to convert the current  java.time classes to java.util.Date objects:

import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.util.Date;
 
public class DateUtils {
 
    public static Date asDate(LocalDate localDate) {
        return Date.from(localDate.atStartOfDay().atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant());
    }
 
    public static Date asDate(LocalDateTime localDateTime) {
        return Date.from(localDateTime.atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant());
    }
 
    public static LocalDate asLocalDate(Date date) {
        return Instant.ofEpochMilli(date.getTime()).atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toLocalDate();
    }
 
    public static LocalDateTime asLocalDateTime(Date date) {
        return Instant.ofEpochMilli(date.getTime()).atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toLocalDateTime();
    }
}

Using  java.sql.Date.valueOf() method :

Date date = java.sql.Date.valueOf(localDate);

convert java.time.LocalDate to java.util.Date and vice versa. In the first part of the code snippet we convert LocalDateto Date and back to LocalDate object. On the second part we convert LocalDateTime to Date and back to LocalDateTime object.

package org.kodejava.example.datetime;

import java.time.*;
import java.util.Date;

public class LocalDateToDate {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Convert java.time.LocalDate to java.util.Date and back to
        // java.time.LocalDate
        LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.now();
        System.out.println("LocalDate = " + localDate);

        Date date1 = Date.from(localDate.atStartOfDay(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant());
        System.out.println("Date      = " + date1);

        localDate = date1.toInstant().atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toLocalDate();
        System.out.println("LocalDate = " + localDate);
        System.out.println();

        // Convert java.time.LocalDateTime to java.util.Date and back to
        // java.time.LocalDateTime
        LocalDateTime localDateTime = LocalDateTime.now();
        System.out.println("LocalDateTime = " + localDateTime);

        Date date2 = Date.from(localDateTime.atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant());
        System.out.println("Date          = " + date2);

        localDateTime = date2.toInstant().atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toLocalDateTime();
        System.out.println("LocalDateTime = " + localDateTime);
    }
}

The result of the code snippet:

LocalDate = 2017-02-14
Date      = Tue Feb 14 00:00:00 WITA 2017
LocalDate = 2017-02-14

LocalDateTime = 2017-02-14T10:34:49.562
Date          = Tue Feb 14 10:34:49 WITA 2017
LocalDateTime = 2017-02-14T10:34:49.562

LocalDateTime instance – we can similarly use an intermediary ZonedDateTime, and then using the toLocalDateTime() API.

Just like before, we can use two possible solutions of getting an Instant object from java.util.Date: