Convert Date to Simple Date notation

Question

I am working with the Twitter api. I get this back from the api

"created_at": "Mon Dec 17 21:37:27 +0000 2018"

How can I make this a nice date like:

17 Dec 2017 ?

DateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy");
DateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("????");
String inputDateStr = "Mon Dec 17 21:37:27 +0000 2018";
Date date = inputFormat.parse(inputDateStr);
String s = outputFormat.format(date);

can someone help me with this one? something like "EE MMM dd H:m:s +0000 yyyy" ?

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Possible duplicate of [Twitter date unparseable?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4521715/twitter-date-unparseable) — Ole V.V., Dec 18 '18 at 08:10
Possible duplicate of [How to convert Date.toString back to Date?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9431927/how-to-convert-date-tostring-back-to-date) — Ole V.V., Dec 18 '18 at 08:16
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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 17 '18 at 23:48

Here is answer for you

Kotlin version

val date = "Mon Dec 17 21:37:27 +0000 2018"
val dateFormat = "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZZ yyyy"
val simpleDateFormat = SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat, Locale.ENGLISH)

val result = simpleDateFormat.parse(date)

Java version

String date = "Mon Dec 17 21:37:27 +0000 2018";
String dateFormat = "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZZ yyyy";
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat, Locale.ENGLISH);

Date result = simpleDateFormat.parse(date)

Convert Date to Simple Date notation

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