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intellignt_idiot
intellignt_idiot

Reputation: 1992

Unable to parse date

I am trying to parse following date in android to device local time. The date is Thu Apr 07 18:26:42 GMT+05:30 2016 . I want to get this date in any other format, say MM-dd-yyyy.

Here is what I have tried :

SimpleDateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
                "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss 'GMT' Z yyyy", Locale.US);
        inputFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Etc/UTC"));

        SimpleDateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy h:mm a");

        Date date = inputFormat.parse("Thu Apr 07 18:26:42 GMT+05:30 2016");
        String outputText = outputFormat.format(date);
        WriteLog.Print("outputText" + outputText);

Please tell me what I am doing wrong here. The above code is giving me exception saying unparseable date.

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 445

Answers (1)

Knossos
Knossos

Reputation: 16038

The issue in your case is that you have a bit of whitespace in your inputFormat.

SimpleDateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
    "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss 'GMT' Z yyyy", Locale.US);

Instead you need to have:

SimpleDateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
    "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss 'GMT'Z yyyy", Locale.US);

Upvotes: 1

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