Converting iso8601 date to unix timestamp in java

Question

I have a date string

   String s = "2014-09-01T19:22:43.000Z";
  Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ").parse(s);

But I get an exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2014-09-01T19:22:43.000Z"

How do I convert the above string to unix timestamp? Thanks

Answer 1

X is used for ISO 8601 time zone in SimpleDateFormat, not Z

Correct format is "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSX"