converting time string to time stamp in java

Question

I have a string of time format 2015-08-14T06:00:00+08:00 and I want to convert that to timeStamp but with:

public static Long convertTimeStringToTimeStampMilSec(String timeStr){
        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:MM:SS+08:00");
        try {
            Date d = dateFormat.parse(timeStr);
            Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
            c.setTime(d);
            return c.getTimeInMillis();
        }catch (Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
}

And get exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal pattern character 'T'
    at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.compile(SimpleDateFormat.java:845)
    at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.initialize(SimpleDateFormat.java:659)
    at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.<init>(SimpleDateFormat.java:585)
    at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.<init>(SimpleDateFormat.java:560)

How to deal with this?

http://stackoverflow.com/a/2597111/3166303 – leeor Oct 13 '15 at 03:57 — leeor, Oct 13 '15 at 03:57

SatyaTNV · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-13T04:00:27.697

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal pattern character 'T'

It should be

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss+08:00");

Quoted sequences in the format, such a 'T', which is treated as a literal.

edited Oct 13 '15 at 04:00

answered Oct 13 '15 at 03:54

SatyaTNV

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