Parsing long date in Android with SimpleDateFormat

Question

How should I configure SimpleDateFormat in order to be able to parse the following date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 00:00:00 CET

I tried: new SimpleDateFormat("EEE dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z"); But it got the following exception:

ERROR java.text.ParseException:
Unparseable date: "Thu, 4 Apr 2013 00:00:00 CET"

"it did not worked" is not a useful description of your symptoms. — CommonsWare, Apr 10 '13 at 13:52
Also, seems like your format is missing the comma after the day name... — dmon, Apr 10 '13 at 13:55
Here is the same problem with a solution: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2705548/parse-rss-pubdate-to-date-object-in-java — Zlatko, Apr 10 '13 at 14:06
Also note that `SimpleDateFormat` is [locale sensitive](http://stackoverflow.com/q/5174696/27190) — martijno, Apr 10 '13 at 14:11

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 10 '13 at 14:09

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You seem to be missing a comma. Try:

SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z");
Date d = sf.parse("Thu, 4 Apr 2013 00:00:00 CET")

answered Apr 10 '13 at 14:09

Frohnzie

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