DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(\"EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss z yyyy\");
sdf.parse(\"Sun Dec 13 10:00:00 UTC 2009\")
result
ja
It doesn't for me - perhaps your default locale uses different month names? Specify the locale for the format.
// Will definitely work
DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss z yyyy",
Locale.US);
// Will definitely not work
DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss z yyyy",
Locale.FRANCE);
// Might work - depends on default locale
DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss z yyyy")
(The problem is the names of the days of the week and months of the year, which are obviously culture-specific. Date and time separators can vary too.)
EDIT: It's odd that you're still having problems. Just to check, please try to run the following short but complete program:
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss z yyyy",
Locale.US);
sdf.parse("Sun Dec 13 10:00:00 UTC 2009");
}
}
If that doesn't work, try taking out the time zone part of both the pattern and the text. I wonder whether it's having problems with that.
EDIT: If the Android SimpleDateFormat
implementation doesn't manage to parse the time zone, you can probably just use:
text = text.replace(" UTC ", " ");
Date parsed = sdf.parse(text);
... having set the time zone on the parser to UTC, of course. You probably want to check that it contains " UTC " first, just in case your data format changes.