Question

Hello i need to parse this string

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 3:50 PM CEST

I’m using SimpleDataFormat in this way

String date = "Sun, 15 Aug 2010 3:50 pm CEST";
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy h:mm a Z");
Date d = formatter.parse(date);

but it throws an exception.

Can you help me please?

Thanks

Answer 1

SimpleDateFormat is sensitive to the Locale that is currently set. So it can be that there is a problem when trying to parse the format with your current one. With your constructor it uses Locale.getDefault() to determine the setting.

You could try to create the DateFormat explicitly using the Locale.US via new SimpleDateFormat(pattern, Locale.US) and verify if the problem also exists in that case.