Parsing a String with a GMT timezone to Date using SimpleDateFormat

Question

I\'m having problem parsing the Date from an input string that is of the following format:

String input = \"Fri Jul 15 12:00:00 GMT+300 2011\";
String dateFo         


        

Answer 1

The problem was that GMT+300 isn't valid GMT string according to the Java Timezone specification.

Solution: Manipulating the timezone portion of input string. GMT+300 ==> GMT+3:00