Unexpected java SimpleDateFormat parse exception

Question

I can\'t understand why this few lines

    Date submissionT;
    SimpleDateFormat tempDate = new SimpleDateFormat(\"EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss z yyyy\");

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Answer 1

The 'z' in your format represents TimeZone and Java only recognises certain timezone ID's. You can get the list out of the TimeZone class as a String Array. CEST does not appear in the list I just generated from JDK 1.5

String[] aZones = TimeZone.getAvailableIDs();
    for (int i = 0; i < aZones.length; i++) {
        String string = aZones[i];
        System.out.println(string);
    }

Hope this helps.