Unparseable date: "2018-07-03T01:00:21.000+0000" Cannot parse this format

Question

Try 1:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS+/-HHmm");
format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
Date date = format.parse(createdDate2);

Try 2:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd\'T\'HH:mm:ss.SSS\'Z\'");
format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
Date date = format.parse(createdDate2);

Try 3:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'");
format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
Date date = format.parse(createdDate2);

Nothing seems to work with this format:

Any help?

Any particular reason why you are using the `SimpleDateFormat`, `TimeZone` and `Date` classes? Those are all long outdated, and `SimpleDateFormat` in particular notoriously troublesome. Today we have so much better in [`java.time`, the modern Java date and time API](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/datetime/). — Ole V.V., Jul 11 '18 at 19:35
guess, why Oracle has not deprecated Date object completely? because there is still lots of code using Date Objects... — Levancho, Apr 11 '20 at 22:04

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '18 at 12:32

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        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
        format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
        Date date = format.parse(createdDate2);

answered Jul 10 '18 at 12:32

Ralf Renz

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '18 at 12:41

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This might not exactly be what you want, but if the timezone offset would be written with a colon separator e.g. +00:00 it's the ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME

OffsetDateTime d = OffsetDateTime.parse("2018-07-03T01:00:21.000+00:00", DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME);
System.out.println(d); // 2018-07-03T01:00:21Z

answered Jul 10 '18 at 12:41

Karol Dowbecki

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Good suggestion. To parse `+0000` as an offset, you may build a `DatetimeFormatter` using a format pattern string with `xx` for offset. – Ole V.V. Jul 11 '18 at 19:39
When I try to parse this String as CharacterSequence : '2018-07-10T01:00:03.000+0000' I get this error: `java.time.format.DateTimeParseException: Text '2018-07-10T01:00:03.000+0000' could not be parsed at index 23` – Nagendra Singh Jul 17 '18 at 07:19
@NagendraSingh That's because there is no colon in the timezone offset. – Karol Dowbecki Jul 17 '18 at 08:36

Unparseable date: "2018-07-03T01:00:21.000+0000" Cannot parse this format

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