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javaparsingdatetimesimpledateformattimezone-offset
user2779095
user2779095

Reputation: 43

Unparseable Date Exception SimpleDateFormat

While parsing string to date object using SimpleDateFormat, I am getting below error.

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Tue, 29 Mar 2016 11:27:37 -0400"

The code I am using to parsed date is:

DateFormat df2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");

I am able to parse dates like Mon, 13 Jun 2016 11:48:54 +0300.

I noticed one thing that dates having +ve timezone(+0300) are getting parsed but -ve timezone(-0400) are not getting parsed.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 972

Answers (1)

assylias
assylias

Reputation: 328737

I suspect the issue is that your default locale is not English (maybe German, which would explain why Mon works (Montag) but not Tue (Dienstag)?).

Just specify ENGLISH as a locale:

DateFormat df2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z", Locale.ENGLISH);
Date date = df2.parse("Tue, 29 Mar 2016 11:27:37 -0400");
System.out.println(date); //prints Tue Mar 29 15:27:37 GMT 2016

The code above works fine on ideone and on my machine.

Upvotes: 1

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