Can't parse dates with full zone name

[Vinod K Singh]

I am trying to parse a date with full zone names like 'Canada/Newfoundland' as shown below-

DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss zzzz");
String str = "2003-02-17 09:00:00 Canada/Newfoundland"; //
Date dt = sdf.parse(str);

But it leads to exception-

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2003-02-17 09:00:00 Canada/Newfoundland"

Any ideas?

[Himanshu Gupta]

Well I just gone through the Docs of SimpleDateFormat class.

Format Pattern
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"yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' hh:mm:ss z" ->> 1996.07.10 AD at 15:08:56 PDT
"EEE, MMM d, ''yy" ->> Wed, July 10, '96
"h:mm a" ->> 12:08 PM
"hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz" ->> 12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time
"K:mm a, z" ->> 0:00 PM, PST
"yyyyy.MMMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa" ->> 1996.July.10 AD 12:08 PM

I was not able to find the format you are giving it. I think it should be modified.

HTH

[Campbell Ritchie]

Go through the TimeZone and DateFormat classes and you can get a TimeZone object from Canada/Newfoundland, then pass it to your DateFormat object. That might sort out your problem.