SimpleDateFormat can parse date on android 4.0+ but fails on android 2.3 -

Asked Oct 17 '12 at 05:37

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This is due to different jdk versions on android.

  String string = "Tue Oct 16 00:00:55 IST 2012";
  Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy").parse(string);

and also tried

String string = "Tue Oct 16 00:00:55 IST 2012";
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss 'UTC' yyyy").parse(string);

adding Locale in SimpleDateFormat constructor has no effect.

I have searched and got this but can't find any workaround.

Is there any workaround for this?

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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asked Oct 17 '12 at 05:37

Sunny

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What do you mean by fails ? Some output / stack trace would be nice. – Deepak Bala Oct 17 '12 at 06:23
Can you specify the error you are getting? – Pratik Oct 19 '12 at 06:02
I was getting unparsable date exception. – Sunny Oct 19 '12 at 14:58
My problem fixed solution from this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6299837/simpledateformat-unparseable-date-exception – barbarian Oct 24 '12 at 21:09

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