Question

I have simple code, it still throws me unparseable date exception. I’m confused, the pattern seems to be correct.

DateFormat dffrom = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy");
dffrom.parse("Sun Jan 20 00:50:24 CET 2013");

I tried also these patterns:

"EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy"
"EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z YYYY"
"EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz YYYY"

Answer 1

Your default Locale may not recognize the words “Sun” and/or “Jan”. Try with ENGLISH Locale:

new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);

To view your default Locale you can use:

System.out.println(Locale.getDefault());

See: Locale