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Asked: 2026-05-26T23:59:30+00:00

Sorry for bringing this up, but I don’t see it. I have date+time in

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Sorry for bringing this up, but I don’t see it. I have date+time in such format:

dd-MM-yy HH:mm

For example

15-11-11 09:36

(at the time of writing, it indicates date 5 days ago). When I try to run:

new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yy HH:mm").parse("15-11-11 09:36")

I get exception:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: “15-11-11 09:36”

At first I thought it is something with year (despite (-80,+20) boundary — according to documentation). Well, maybe, but when I remove time (from string and pattern), the date is recognized correctly.

Does anyone see what I don’t see?

Update

My system (Linux) short date format:

YYYY-MM-DD

long:

WEEKDAY DD MONTH YYYY

and time:

HH:MM:SS

However I thought the purpose of giving the pattern is to be locale independent.

Out of curiosity I added “:ss” to pattern and “:01” to string, still exception.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I can just estimate but I think that you copy/pasted either format fragment or the date. And by mistake inserted different semicolon character in both cases. The characters look the same but are different.

    So, I suggest you to take your working example without time and type manually HH:mm and 10:36. If it does not work, I am really sorry. :(. If it does try first to change 10 to 09. This is to be sure that it takes numbers with leading zeros.

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