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

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

That assumes your date chooser uses the system default timezone to transform dates into strings.

Here's a utility class I use to convert the newer java.time classes to java.util.Date objects and vice versa:

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();
  }
}

Edited based on @Oliv comment.

Disclaimer: For illustrating existing java apis only. Should not be used in production code.

You can use java.sql.Date.valueOf() method as:

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

No need to add time and time zone info here because they are taken implicitly.
See LocalDate to java.util.Date and vice versa simplest conversion?

java.time has the Temporal interface which you can use to create Instant objects from most of the the time classes. Instant represents milliseconds on the timeline in the Epoch - the base reference for all other dates and times.

We need to convert the Date into a ZonedDateTime, with a Time and a Zone, to do the conversion:

LocalDate ldate = ...;
Instant instant = Instant.from(ldate.atStartOfDay(ZoneId.of("GMT")));
Date date = Date.from(instant);

This works for me:

java.util.Date d = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").parse(localDate.toString());

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/LocalDate.html#toString--

In order to create a java.util.Date from a java.time.LocalDate, you have to

add a time to the LocalDate

interpret the date and time within a time zone

get the number of seconds / milliseconds since epoch

create a java.util.Date

The code might look as follows:

LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.now();
Date date = new Date(localDate.atStartOfDay(ZoneId.of("America/New_York")).toEpochSecond() * 1000);

Kotlin Solution:

1) Paste this extension function somewhere.

fun LocalDate.toDate(): Date = Date.from(this.atStartOfDay(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant())

2) Use it, and never google this again.

val myDate = myLocalDate.toDate()

public static Date convertToTimeZone(Date date, String tzFrom, String tzTo) {
    return Date.from(LocalDateTime.ofInstant(date.toInstant(), ZoneId.of(tzTo)).atZone(ZoneId.of(tzFrom)).toInstant());
} 

    LocalDate date = LocalDate.now();
    DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-mm-yyyy");
    try {
        Date utilDate= formatter.parse(date.toString());
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // handle exception
    }

localDate.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd/MM/yyyy"));

Try this:

public Date convertFrom(LocalDate date) {
    return Date.valueOf(date);
}

Simple

public Date convertFrom(LocalDate date) {
    return java.sql.Timestamp.valueOf(date.atStartOfDay());
}

java.util.Date.from(localDate.atStartOfDay().atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant());