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PaNaVTEC
PaNaVTEC

Reputation: 2503

Date Parsing with simpledateformatter

Im trying to parse the following date:

 Wed Aug 27 13:08:45 +0000 2008

(Is for Twitter API 1.1)

I make the following format:

/**
 * Large twitter date format sample: "Wed Aug 27 13:08:45 +0000 2008"
 */
private static final String LARGE_TWITTER_DATE_FORMAT = "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy";

but it says:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Sun Dec 25 14:49:28 +0000 2011" (at offset 0)
     at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:626)

What im doing wrong?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3087

Answers (2)

Andrew Fielden
Andrew Fielden

Reputation: 3899

The following works for me

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;


public class Test {

    private static final String LARGE_TWITTER_DATE_FORMAT = "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy";

    /**
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(LARGE_TWITTER_DATE_FORMAT);

        try {
            System.out.println(df.parse("Wed Aug 27 13:08:45 +0000 2008 "));
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: -1

mishadoff
mishadoff

Reputation: 10789

I think this is locale issue. Running that code on my machine gives me expected result with no exception.

Hint: Parsing for ENGLISH locale works good

 String LARGE_TWITTER_DATE_FORMAT = "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy";
 String twiDate = "Wed Aug 27 13:08:45 +0000 2008";
 new SimpleDateFormat(LARGE_TWITTER_DATE_FORMAT, Locale.ENGLISH)
       .parse(twiDate).getHours());

Parsing for FRANCE locale causes the same error that you have

String LARGE_TWITTER_DATE_FORMAT = "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy";
String twiDate = "Wed Aug 27 13:08:45 +0000 2008";
System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat(LARGE_TWITTER_DATE_FORMAT, Locale.FRANCE)
                .parse(twiDate).getHours());

Upvotes: 4

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