Simpledateformat ParseException

Question

I need to change the input date format to my desired format.

String time = \"Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:58 pm CET\";
SimpleDateFormat displayFormat = 
    new SimpleDat         


        

Answer 1

It appears Android's z does not accept time zones in the format XXX (such as "CET"). (Pulling from the SimpleDateFormat documentation.)

Try this instead:

String time = "Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:58 pm +0100"; // CET = +1hr = +0100
SimpleDateFormat parseFormat = 
    new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm aa Z"); // Capital Z
Date date = parseFormat.parse(time);

SimpleDateFormat displayFormat = 
    new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy, HH:mm");
System.out.println("output is " + displayFormat.format(date));

output is 02.11.2012, 22:58

Note: Also, I think you meant hh instead of HH, since you have PM.

Result is shown here. (This uses Java7's SimpleDateFormat, but Android should support RFC 822 timezones (+0100) as well.)

NB: Also, as it appears Android's z accepts full names ("Pacific Standard Time" is the example they give), you could simply specify "Centural European Time" instead of "CET".