Question

I’m getting from the server a Json object with this format "Date": "/Date(1337032800000+0000)/" and I need it to be like “1 April”.

I’m trying to parse it like this, but I always get a "Unparseable date" message:

mDate = jsonArray.getJSONObject(i).getString("Date");
                    String shortDate = mDate.substring(6, mDate.length()-7);
                    String format="yyyy-MM-dd";
                    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
                    try {
                        Date date = sdf.parse(shortDate);
                    } catch (ParseException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }

Thanks a lot in advance!

Answer 1

you need to modify your original response something like replace /Date/

String data = "/Date(1337032800000+0000)/";
String result = data.replaceAll("^/Date\\(" , "");
result = result.substring(0, result.indexOf('+'));

now you have 1337032800000 which is date in Millisecond.