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javadatetimezonesimpledateformatparseexception
Andrea
Andrea

Reputation: 180

unparseable date with timezone

I have to parse this two date

private static final String d1 = "2013­-04­-02T08:37:56Z";
private static final String d2 = "2013-­04-­02T10:37:56+02:00";

for the first one I'm using the pattern 

"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"

and for the second one I'm using

"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX"

but I'm always getting 

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: ....

here my test code:

private static final String d1 = "2013-­04­-02T08:37:56Z";
private static final String d2 = "2013-­04­-02T10:37:56+02:00";

private static final String DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'";
private static final String DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE2 = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX";

public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE);

        Date d = df.parse(d1);
        System.out.println("d1 = " + d);

        df = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE2);
        df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/Rome"));
        Date dt = df.parse(d2);
        System.out.println("d2 = " + dt);
    } catch (ParseException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
}

What's wrong in my code?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2351

Answers (3)

jhamon
jhamon

Reputation: 3691

After converting your examples to Hex, it seems you are not using normal hyphen (0x2D) but a similar character (0xC2AD according to my notepad++ converter) called 'soft hyphen'.

Upvotes: 0

Jens
Jens

Reputation: 69460

Your DateFormat Definition is wrong:

private static final String DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE = "yyyyMMdd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'";
private static final String DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE2 = "yyyyMMdd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX";

There are no minus sign in the string

UPDATE: After you have updated your question, I think the - sign is not the minus sign. It only look so. Replace this signs. and try again.

Upvotes: 4

ninja.coder
ninja.coder

Reputation: 9648

Change your Formatter as follows.

private static final String DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE = "yyyyMMdd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'";
private static final String DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE2 = "yyyyMMdd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX";

However, I would recommend using JodaTime for this purpose. JodaTime has better functions. Using JodaTime you can do something like this:

DateTimeFormatter df = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyyMMdd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
DateTime dateTime = df.parseDateTime("2013­-04­-02T08:37:56Z");
Date date = dateTime.toDate();

Upvotes: 0

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