Java- Parsing Twitter's created_at String

Question

So I call this method:

System.out.println(getTwitterDate("Thu, 3 Jan 2010 18:26:07 +0000").getMonth());

And I keep getting 11 for every month I use.

I'm doing this in the getTwitterDate:

final String TWITTER="EEE, dd MMM YYYY HH:mm:ss ZZZZZ";
SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat(TWITTER);
return sf.parse(date);

I'm going by this https://stackoverflow.com/a/4522095/1193534 but removed the sf.lenient part.

What am I doing wrong?

Jaqen H'ghar · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-17T15:19:43.363

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Just use small y instead of Y:

final String TWITTER="EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss ZZZZZ";

edited Aug 17 '14 at 15:19

answered Aug 17 '14 at 15:14

Jaqen H'ghar

Thanks! Seems to work for everything except for getYear(). I keep getting `114` instead of `2014`. – MosesA Aug 17 '14 at 18:16
Actually, never-mind. I found out why it does that. Thanks! :) – MosesA Aug 17 '14 at 18:19
@AdegokeA Thanks and you're welcome:-) Out of curiosity what was it? – Jaqen H'ghar Aug 17 '14 at 18:25
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The guy was harsh but he was right lol. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7215621/why-does-javas-date-getyear-return-111-instead-of-2011#comment8671305_7215621 – MosesA Aug 17 '14 at 19:06

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 22 '20 at 04:51

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This is the latest created_at format received from the Twitter response for GET lists/statuses.

"EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZZ yyyy"

answered Mar 22 '20 at 04:51

AdamHurwitz

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