Question

In Java 6, I have a date string that looks like

2011-11-28T21:00:00Z

How would I get a java.util.Date out of the above String, given the “T” and “Z” characters don’t really mean anything? (You can assume the timezone is the default time zone of the machine that is running this Java code).

Answer 1

Assuming you want to ignore Z, do this:

String s ="2011-11-28T21:00:00Z";
Date d = (new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'")).parse(s);