Cannot parse date string containing three letter month

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I spent about hour to solve problem, but I couldn't...

My date string is "06 Jan 2016", and I want to parse it to object Date.

I tried next method

SimpleDateFormat frmt2 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy");   
Date date = frmt2.parse("06 Jan 2016");

And I got:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "06 Jan 2016" (at offset 3)

I tried Joda lib

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd MMM yyyy");
DateTime dt = formatter.parseDateTime("06 Jan 2016");

But I got same error:

Invalid format: "06 Jan 2016" is malformed at "Jan 2016"

Can you help me please to obtain the success in this simple problem.

Thank you very much.

Simply because `06 JAN 2016` is not a valid date. Try `2016-01-06`, instead. — Phantômaxx, Jan 23 '16 at 14:19
What's your Locale? That's probably not a valid format for your default. It is valid in, for example, `Locale.US`. — Mike M., Jan 23 '16 at 14:27
Sorry! this string from my experiments. However, my question is still about the correct line. "06 Jan 2016" — Rinnion, Jan 23 '16 at 19:16
[Never use SimpleDateFormat or DateTimeFormatter without a Locale](https://stackoverflow.com/a/65544056/10819573) — Arvind Kumar Avinash, May 09 '21 at 15:11

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '16 at 14:24

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  SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd,yyyy  hh:mm", Locale.ENGLISH);

    Date theDate = format.parse("JAN 13,2014  09:15");

    Calendar myCal = new GregorianCalendar();
    myCal.setTime(theDate);

    System.out.println("Day: " + myCal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
    System.out.println("Month: " + myCal.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1);
    System.out.println("Year: " + myCal.get(Calendar.YEAR));

answered Jan 23 '16 at 14:24

Ahsan Kamal

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Thank you! It works. I had to specify the Locale. I have all earned. – Rinnion Jan 23 '16 at 19:28
Had you test on **Jan-24-2016** – Ahsan Kamal Jan 24 '16 at 08:31
@Rinnion - That's correct. [Never use SimpleDateFormat or DateTimeFormatter without a Locale](https://stackoverflow.com/a/65544056/10819573) – Arvind Kumar Avinash May 09 '21 at 15:12

Cannot parse date string containing three letter month

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