Converting a String to Date, almost done! [duplicate]

Answer 1

The problem with S is that it will produce three digit milli-seconds but will not parse three digits.

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
System.out.println(sdf.parse("2011-06-07T14:08:59.697-0700"));

prints

Tue Jun 07 22:08:59 BST 2011

It appears you need to remove the : in the timezone.