Parsing Date Formats in Java

Question

I\'m trying to convert Dates into Unix Timestamps in Java. Examples for my dates are: \"Fri Jun 05 15:53:07 PDT 2009\"

My code is:

DateFormat dateFormat          


        

Answer 1

This is probably a Locale issue - Fri is friday in English but not in French or German for example:

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);