Question

I am trying to parse a Date like this:

THU 04/04 – 1PM PST

I have tried different patterns, and currently I have this one:

SimpleDateFormat formatoFechaHora = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE dd/MM - ha z");
Date daa=formatoFechaHora.parse("THU 04/04 - 1PM PST");

This throws an exception:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: “Thu 02/07 – 1PM PST” (at
offset 0)

What is the right pattern to parse this?

Answer 1

your should be EEE dd/MM - ha z

note that EEE is for the day THU and yyyy is for year like 2013.

EDIT:
you probably need to set your Locale to ENGLISH explicitly.

SimpleDateFormat formatoFechaHora = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE dd/MM - ha z", Locale.ENGLISH);