date-parsing

I am working in a project that reads files and processes data. There I got to work with dates for example: 2012-01-10 23:13:26 January 13, 2012 I found the package Joda, kinda interesting package but don't know if it is the easiest around. I was able to parse the first example to a DateTime object (Joda) reg-ex and String manipulation. (Ex: by replacing the space by '-' and passing it to constructor. new DateTime("2012-01-10 23:13:26".replace(' ', '-')) I guess it worked, but the problem is with the second format. How can I use such an input to extract a an object, preferably a Joda object. I

I am working with dates in an RSS feed, but am finding differing results when using the code below in IE, Chrome and Firefox: new Date('2001-01-01T12:00:00Z') Firefox is happy with that, but Chrome and IE return Invalid Date. I thought I'd try replacing the T and Z as follows: new Date('2001-01-01 12:00:00') This time Chrome is happy with that, but Firefox and IE return Invalid Date. Any ideas what I should do to get a date object in all browsers with this format?! Many thanks, Tim This works in all browsers on my box - try it in the console: alert(new Date('2001/01/31 12:00:00')) so new Date(

I checked the SimpleDateFormat javadoc , but I am not able to find a way to parse the ordinal indicator in a date format like this: Feb 13th 2015 9:00AM I tried "MMM dd yyyy hh:mma" , but the days have to be in number for it to be correct? Is it possible to parse the "13th" date using a SimpleDateFormat without having to truncate the string? Java's SimpleDateFormat doesn't support an ordinal suffix, but the ordinal suffix is just eye candy - it is redundant and can easily be removed to allow a straightforward parse: Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd yyyy hh:mma") .parse(str.replaceAll("