The date format issue from java
date, datetime, java
Solution
Remove that `:` inside the time zone part if you are not using java 7
and use this :
`SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");`
See javadoc for SimpleDateFormat in Java 6
And
If you are using Java 7 then directly use this :
`SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX");`
See javadoc for SimpleDateFormat in Java 7
Problem
I get the date format from a joynet cloud api server: ``` 2012-11-20T10:26:04+00:00" ``` However, I have no idea to handle the last segment +00:00, I have made the format except for +00:00 ``` SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"); Date date = fmt.parse("2012-11-20T10:26:04"); ``` Thanks for @Abu I rewrite it to remove ":", ``` SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"); String input = "2012-11-20T10:25:58+00:00"; String s1 = input.split("T")[0]; String s2 = input.split("T")[1]; String sep = null; if (s2.contains("+")) { sep = "+"; } if (s2.contains("-")) { sep = "-"; } String s3 = s2.split("\\" + sep)[0]; String s4 = s2.split("\\" + sep)[1].replace(":", ""); String cleanDate = s1 + "T" + s3 + sep + s4; Date date = fmt.parse(cleanDate); System.out.println(date); ```