Android can't parse string to date

Question

I have this string

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 9:30 am WET

and needed to be parsed to a Date object, I tried lot of masks but didn't work, here is the last thing I tried that I thought it would work with but didn't

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm aaa z", Locale.ENGLISH);

thanks

stack trace

01-08 14:25:25.906: W/System.err(13288): java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:59 am WET"
01-08 14:25:25.914: W/System.err(13288):    at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:626)

I ended up using this instead

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat     = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm aaa", Locale.ENGLISH);
Date date = dateFormat.parse(dateString.substring(0, dateString.length() - 4));

that WET part was the cause so I removed it, it wouldn't give the exact time but I only need the day and month,

no idea, I think it's the zone, I got this from yahoo's website — TootsieRockNRoll
– TootsieRockNRoll, Commented Jan 8, 2014 at 14:28

Alexis C. · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-08 14:29:29Z

5

Give a Locale to your Formatter where days and months are in English, otherwise it will use your default locale (that I presume is not English) and hence can't parse your String.

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat =
      new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm aaa z", Locale.ENGLISH);

edited Jan 8, 2014 at 14:29

answered Jan 8, 2014 at 14:17

Alexis C.

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Alexis C. Over a year ago

Post the stacktrace please, because it's working for me.

turbo Over a year ago

should that be hh:mm?

Alexis C. Over a year ago

@turbo Yes I failed when I wrote it, sorry.

Alexis C. Over a year ago

@user2427819 Check this thread : stackoverflow.com/questions/6299837/…

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