Question

I have String like “Dec 31, 1969 4:00:00 PM”. I want to convert it to Date. I am using SimpleDateFormat. But it is giving me exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown pattern character ‘Y’. How to solve it??

 Date date ; 
  SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-YY HH:mm:ss");
  date = (Date)formatter.parse(start);

Thanks.

Answer 1

Perhaps it should be small letter ‘y’ instead of capital one.
FYI, See:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html