Exception in thread "main" java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date

Question

To clarify my question the original problem is that I was trying to :

I don't know the problem with this code:

    SimpleDateFormat fromFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm:ss a");
    String date = "Sep 13, 2016 6:16:46 PM";
    Date parse = fromFormat.parse(date);

I got this error:

Exception in thread "main" java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Sep 13, 2016 6:16:46 PM"

@larsgrefer i wanna parse a Date from one format to another. — Pablo Souza, Sep 14 '16 at 00:39
@RickJames thats another problem, i´m recieving a date from a rest api on "sep" ( ETC timezone ) format and i need to parse to "set" (BRT timezone). I tried to set timezones but i got the same exception. — Pablo Souza, Sep 14 '16 at 00:41
Please clarify in your question what you are really trying to do — larsgrefer, Sep 14 '16 at 00:50
Possible duplicate of [Java string to date conversion](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4216745/java-string-to-date-conversion) — Tom, Sep 14 '16 at 01:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 14 '16 at 00:17

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in my IDE,I haven't got your error,but met with this

    Date parse = toFormat.parse(formated);

error found:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem: 
    Unhandled exception type ParseException

Maybe our java versions is different. for Class SimpleDateFormat, I got reference to JAVA API according to my JAVA version. It is the the lack of parameter that resulted in the error I faced.

as this

answered Sep 14 '16 at 00:17

Young_Bother

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not to throws ParseException,try to fix you parameter refer to api. – Young_Bother Sep 14 '16 at 00:31

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 14 '16 at 00:50

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Your SimpleDateFormat instances use different patterns, so the second instance can not parse a date formatted by the first one

answered Sep 14 '16 at 00:50

larsgrefer

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 14 '16 at 01:11

Thanks all!

I found the error:

My default locale is incompatible with the input date. So I need to set the Locale:

SimpleDateFormat fromFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm:ss a", Locale.US);
    String date = "Sep 13, 2016 6:16:46 PM";
    Date parse = fromFormat.parse(date);

Exception in thread "main" java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date

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