Problem in parsing String into a particular Date format

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

Hi,

I tried formatting a string into a particular Date format specified using the SimpleDateFormat class. But i wasn't successful in doing it. Below is the code which tried parsing the String

String str="2009-02-09T16:40:07Z";
Date postedDate;
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");
postedDate = sdf.parse(str);

I get the following error message:

Exception in thread "main" java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2009-02-09T16:40:07Z"
	at java.text.DateFormat.parse(Unknown Source)

What might me the problem?

[Balu Sadhasivam]

String str="2009-02-09T16:40:07Z";

Z reperesents TIMEZONE , the String did not match It has to represent TIMEZONE and not 'Z'. try like

String str="2009-02-09T16:40:07GMT";

Refer API

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

Thanks a lot. I had been stuck with it for a long time.

[Balu Sadhasivam]

You are welcome. and When you have stuck the best one can do is help himself rather than to wait for a thrid eye
Refer the API link to understand better

[Mike Simmons]

Alternately, if your input string is supposed to end in Z (for Zulu time), you can tell the SimpleDateFormat to expect a literal 'Z' using single quotes, much like the literal 'T' it expects earlier:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));  

[Rob Spoor]

Balu Sadhasivam wrote:
You are welcome. and When you have stuck the best one can do is help himself rather than to wait for a thrid eye

Actually, just asking someone to help you look for the problem helps a lot. I can't even count the number of times I had a problem, asked somebody to help me look for it, and then found it while the other person was still looking over my shoulder. The presence of the other person alone can sometimes work miracles.