Question

i understood how to format the date according to this link
parse exemple

but my problem is a bit complex i have different pubDate rss elements for example

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:19:47 +0200
or

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:01

what is the best why to set one format for any pubDate element

Answer 1

RSS pubDate must conform to the RFC 822 Date/Time specification. You can use the same DateFormat object from your parsing link to get the proper string from a java Date.

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z");
String pubDateText = formatter.format(pubDate);

Where pubDate is a previously defined Date object. This will always return the same format.