A string formatted in the way that toSimpleString formats dates.
std.datetime.date.DateTimeException if the given string is not in the correct format or if the resulting Date would not be valid.
assert(Date.fromSimpleString("2010-Jul-04") == Date(2010, 7, 4)); assert(Date.fromSimpleString("1998-Dec-25") == Date(1998, 12, 25)); assert(Date.fromSimpleString("0000-Jan-05") == Date(0, 1, 5)); assert(Date.fromSimpleString("-0004-Jan-05") == Date(-4, 1, 5)); assert(Date.fromSimpleString(" 2010-Jul-04 ") == Date(2010, 7, 4));
Creates a Date from a string with the format YYYY-Mon-DD. Whitespace is stripped from the given string.