Parse date with AEDT and AEST time zone in java

Question

I am trying to parse a string of format

Thu Apr 07 11:45:28 AEST 2016

into date object. My code looks like following:

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Answer 1

Using the java.time framework (JSR 310), you can do:

DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy");
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.parse("Sat Feb 01 15:00:19 AEDT 2014", dtf);
System.out.println(zdt);

…which prints:

2014-02-01T15:00:19+11:00[Australia/Sydney]

Though why it picks Sydney instead of Melbourne I am not sure.