Question

String that I want to parse:

Sun Nov 10 10:00:00 CET 2013

My code:

substrings = "Sun Nov 10 10:00:00 CET 2013"

SimpleDateFormat parserSDF = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss ZZZ yyyy");
Date date = parserSDF.parse(substrings);

Compiler error output:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: “Sun Nov 10 10:00:00 CET 2013”
at java.text.DateFormat.parse(Unknown Source)
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Answer 1

Probably you are missing the correct Locale. Try this, in your example:

    SimpleDateFormat parserSDF = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss ZZZ yyyy", Locale.US);