Question

I’m trying to parse date like this: Tue Aug 28 21:16:23 +0000 2012 with this code:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("E M dd HH:mm:ssZ yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
String d = object.getString("created_at"); // d = Tue Aug 28 21:16:23 +0000 2012;
date = format.parse(d);

But there is exception:

09-28 11:10:24.471: W/System.err(10388): java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Fri Sep 28 07:09:09 +0000 2012" (at offset 4)

Where I make a mistake?

Answer 1

try this

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

MMM is used to represent short Month.