java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date from ("d MMM yyyy kk:mm:ss zzz")

Question

I get ParseException in second line of the folowing code:

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("d MMM yyyy kk:mm:ss zzz");
Date response = formatter.parse(dateStr);

Exception:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "1 Dec 2014 08:32:59 GMT" (at offset 2)

How to solve this?

Answer 1

You need to set the Locale.

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("d MMM yyyy kk:mm:ss zzz",
                                                                      Locale.US);
Date response = formatter.parse("1 Dec 2014 08:32:59 GMT");
System.out.println(response);