How parse 2013-03-13T20:59:31+0000 date string to Date
android, datetime-format, java, parsing
Solution
`DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ssZ");`
Year is lower case y. Any characters that are in the input which are not related to the date (like the 'T' in `2013-03-13T20:59:31+0000` should be quoted in `''`.
For a list of the defined pattern letters see the documentation
Parse checks that the given date is in the format you specified. To print the date in a specific format after checking see below:
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ssZ");
Date result;
try {
result = df.parse("2013-03-13T20:59:31+0000");
System.out.println("date:"+result); //prints date in current locale
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
System.out.println(sdf.format(result)); //prints date in the format sdf
}
Problem
How to parse this format date string 2013-03-13T20:59:31+0000 to Date object? I'm trying on this way but it doesn't work. ``` DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD"); Date result = df.parse(time); ``` I get this exception from the first line: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal pattern character 'T'