XML dateTime to java.Date using SimpleDateFormat

[Jan Spengen]

Hello Ranchers!

I got a problem converting an XML dateTime String to a Date object.

The XML dateTime String looks like this:
2006-11-07T05:31:33Z

I tried to convert it this way:

SimpleDateFormat parser = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-d'T'HH:mm:ssZ");
Date date;
    try
    {
      date = parser.parse(dateTimeString);
    }
    catch (ParseException e)
    {
      e.printStackTrace();
      return null;
    }

From the results I found using google this should be correct . (?)
But it's always giving me a parsing error saying:

Unparseable date: "2006-11-07T05:31:33Z"

And well I can't figure out how to do it.

I hope someone here is able to give me a hint at least. ;)

Thanks a lot in advance.

[Jan Spengen]

Again a very simple mistake, but I just didn't see it.

It has to be:

SimpleDateFormat parser = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-d'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");

The Z for the timezone has to be 'Z'.

[Paul Clapham]

I'm glad you found the answer. But the use of SimpleDateFormat is nothing to do with XML so I will move this to Java in General (Intermediate).