Date format used to vary from system to system. In SFDC it is like YYYY-MM-DD -2016-03-10 00:00:00 Lets say date format is DD/MM/YYYY in other system, how will we store such date foramt ? String s = '15/08/2014'; date dt = Date.Parse(s); System.debug('Printing--today date -'+system.today()); System.debug('Printing---'+dt); Out put will be 11:25:10.11 (12471791)|USER_DEBUG|[3]|DEBUG|Printing--today date -2016-03-10 00:00:00 11:25:10.11 (12560905)|USER_DEBUG|[5]|DEBUG|Printing---2014-08-15 00:00:00
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