Question

Hello I have been trying to format this date but it keeps giving me in unparsable date error? I am trying to get a time stamp like 2011-06-24T19:55:37Z to be June 24, 2011. here is the code I am using. Also on a side note is contraction (like the 1st, 2nd, 3rd) possible?

 SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM d, yyyy", Locale.US);
 Date dt = sdf.parse("2011-03-01T17:55:15Z");
 time.setText("Time: " + dt.toString());

Answer 1

The problem is that the format provided to SimpleDateFormat’s constructor doesn’t match the format of your date.

The string MM d, yyyy tells SimpleDateFormat how to interpret 2011-03-01T17:55:15Z.

Building a format string is described in the docs.