Question

I have this value,

2011-11-19T00:00:00.000-03:00

which needs to be converted and set it in this format

yyyyMMdd

I tried this way

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;

public class ParsedDate {

    public static void main(String args[]) throws ParseException {
        DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ",
                Locale.US);
        String s1 = "2011-11-19T00:00:00.000-03:00";
        Date d = sdf.parse(s1);
        String s2 = (new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd")).format(d);
        System.out.println(s2);

    }
}

But it is giving me

Exception in thread “main” java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: “2011-11-19T00:00:00.000-03:00”

Could anybody please help me?

Answer 1

Try using this

 DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS",
                    Locale.US);
            String s1 = "2011-11-19T00:00:00.000-03:00";
            Date d;
            try
            {
                d = sdf.parse(s1);
                String s2 = (new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd")).format(d);
                System.out.println(s2);
            }
            catch (ParseException e)
            {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

Notice that I have removed Z