Unparseable date exception while converting UTC time

Asked Mar 24 '15 at 21:00

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So there is my problem- i am using this format to convert my string into a date :

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zZ yyyy", Locale.US);

and there is the code that i am trying to convert with him ("s" is an object of mine , and setBirthday is function that initialize my date variable):

 s.setbirthday(dateFormat.parse(myDateString));

myDateString(the one i want convert to date ) has the next value (which is String) : -"Sun Jan 12 00:00:00 UTC 1913 " .

So any time i a trying to run the program i am getting this exception :

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Sun Jan 12 00:00:00 UTC 1913"

I looked on other threads here but no one helped me so far.

Thanks in advance!

asked Mar 24 '15 at 21:00

Tal

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Don't mix timezone chars - remove the `Z` – Reimeus Mar 24 '15 at 21:04
@Reimeus is right. If you change your SimpleDateFormat pattern to SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy", Locale.US) it works perfectly. – mwarren Mar 24 '15 at 21:40
strill not working ... :( – Tal Mar 24 '15 at 21:44
Works for me. Please give all the code - from beginning to end – mwarren Mar 24 '15 at 21:52
try changing the format string to this: "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy" – mwarren Mar 24 '15 at 22:20
possible duplicate of [java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16871367/java-text-parseexception-unparseable-date) – Basil Bourque Mar 25 '15 at 00:29
@Basil Bourque It's not a duplicate. His pattern is valid. – mwarren Mar 25 '15 at 08:24
@mwarren Looks like a dup to me, with incorrect use of `z` and `Z`. A dup of dozens if not hundreds of other Questions and Answers as well. Unnecessarily posted here, if Tal had bothered to read any of those many others. – Basil Bourque Mar 25 '15 at 23:06

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