Twitter date unparseable?

Question

I want to convert the date string in a Twitter response to a Date object, but I always get a ParseException and I cannot see the error!?!

Input string: Thu Dec 23 18

Answer 1

This works for me ;)

public static Date getTwitterDate(String date) throws ParseException
{
    final String TWITTER = "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z";
    SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat(TWITTER, Locale.ENGLISH);
    sf.setLenient(true);
    return sf.parse(date);
}