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SomeOne
SomeOne

Reputation: 183

Parse String Date time in java

I have a date time (which is a string) in the following format: 2/19/2015 5:25:35 p.m, and I wanted to turn it in the following Date Format: Thu Feb 19 5:25:35 p.m. CET 2015 I tried the following code:

String sDatePrecedenteExecution  = "19/02/2015 17:30:29";
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat ("ddd d mmm yyyy HH: mm: ss");
Date date = format.parse (sDatePrecedenteExecution)

but I got the following error:

java.text.ParseException: unparseable Date: "2/19/2015 5:30:29 p.m."
Has java.text.DateFormat.parse (DateFormat.java:337)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 176

Answers (5)

Sanath Kumar
Sanath Kumar

Reputation: 76

Your SimpleDateFormat doesn't match the format which you are entering. They should reflect the same.

Try this code

String parseDate = ""19/02/2015 17:30:29";

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
Date parsedDate = dateFormat.parse(parseDate);

Upvotes: 2

iamiddy
iamiddy

Reputation: 3073

Use this pattern "dd/M/yyyy HH:mm:ss" instead & read the documentation

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat ("dd/M/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
  String sDatePrecedenteExecution  = "19/02/2015 17:30:29";
 try{date =format.parse (sDatePrecedenteExecution);
      }catch(Exception ex){//deal with it here}
  System.out.println(date.toString()); //Thu Feb 19 17:30:29 UTC 2015

Upvotes: 0

mk.
mk.

Reputation: 11710

You are currently using the "output" format to read your incoming date string (2/19/2015 5:25:35 p.m), which is why you see the error.

You need to specify a second format for parsing your incoming date string, and use that format to parse instead. It should look like this:

SimpleDateFormat inFormat = new SimpleDateFormat ("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss")
Date date = inFormat.parse(sDatePrecedenteExecution)

Note that you also have a bug in your output format - m means minutes, and you want MMM, which is months. Have a look at the docs.

Upvotes: 3

Aninda Bhattacharyya
Aninda Bhattacharyya

Reputation: 1251

You need to change your code something like...

    String sDatePrecedenteExecution  = "19/02/2015 17:30:29";
    SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat ("dd/mm/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
    try {
        Date date = format.parse (sDatePrecedenteExecution);
        System.out.println(date);
        format = new SimpleDateFormat ("ddd d mmm yyyy HH: mm: ss");
        String str = format.format(date);
        System.out.println(str);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Upvotes: 1

roeygol
roeygol

Reputation: 5028

Try this pattern:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat ("dd mm yyyy HH:mm:ss");

You went wrong when you made: "ddd d mmm yyyy HH: mm: ss"

Upvotes: 0

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