unparseable date with timezone

Question

I have to parse this two date

private static final String d1 = "2013­-04­-02T08:37:56Z";
private static final String d2 = "2013-­04-­02T10:37:56+02:00";

for the first one I'm using the pattern

"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"

and for the second one I'm using

"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX"

but I'm always getting

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: ....

here my test code:

private static final String d1 = "2013-­04­-02T08:37:56Z";
private static final String d2 = "2013-­04­-02T10:37:56+02:00";

private static final String DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'";
private static final String DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE2 = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX";

public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE);

        Date d = df.parse(d1);
        System.out.println("d1 = " + d);

        df = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE2);
        df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/Rome"));
        Date dt = df.parse(d2);
        System.out.println("d2 = " + dt);
    } catch (ParseException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
}

What's wrong in my code?

Answer 1

Your DateFormat Definition is wrong:

private static final String DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE = "yyyyMMdd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'";
private static final String DATE_FORMAT_WITH_TIMEZONE2 = "yyyyMMdd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX";

There are no minus sign in the string

UPDATE: After you have updated your question, I think the - sign is not the minus sign. It only look so. Replace this signs. and try again.