Android parse String to Date - unknown pattern character 'X'

Question

I have Service fetch date string from web and then I want to pare it to Date object. But somehow application crashes. This is my string that I\'m parsi

Answer 1

Android SimpleDateFormat is different from Java 7 SDK and does not support 'X' to parse ISO 8601. You can use the 'Z' or 'ZZZZZ' styles to format and programatically set the time zone to UTC. Here is a util class:

public class DateUtil {

    public static final String iso8601DatePattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZZZZZ";
    public static final DateFormat iso8601DateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(iso8601DatePattern);
    public static final TimeZone utcTimeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");

    static {
        iso8601DateFormat.setTimeZone(utcTimeZone);
    }

    public static String formatAsIso8601(Date date) {

        return iso8601DateFormat.format(date);
    }
}