Android parse date Simple Date Format

Question

I been stuck trying to parse the following date format below:

2016-04-27T00:00:00+10:00

I've tried many combinations and can't seem to get it to work.

I would have thought this would work as it make the most sense to me - yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mmZ

Any ideas? Thanks

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3914404/how-to-get-current-moment-in-iso-8601-format — sasikumar, Apr 21 '16 at 08:13

user2004685 · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-21T08:27:24.497

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You are unable to parse it as you are not using the correct format. It should be yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ instead of yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mmZ.

Here is the code snippet:

SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");
String input = "2016-04-27T00:00:00+10:00";
Date date = sf.parse(input);

Output:

Tue Apr 26 14:00:00 GMT 2016

edited Apr 21 '16 at 08:27

answered Apr 21 '16 at 08:12

user2004685

This is the correct answer, Thanks. I was adding the single quotations around the Z which was wrong as well. – Petersicecream Apr 21 '16 at 09:28
@Petersicecream If you are doing something like `'Z'` then it looks for the literal `Z` and since you are not getting the literal but the TimeZone it fails. – user2004685 Apr 21 '16 at 09:53

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 21 '16 at 09:08

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In case you use Jackson for JSON parsing, you can simply annotate date field with @JsonFormat Annotation. Here's an example:

@JsonFormat(shape=JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern="yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'", timezone="GMT")
public Date date;

answered Apr 21 '16 at 09:08

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