How to convert “Fri Sep 21 15:23:59 CEST 2012” to “2012-09-21T15:23:59” in Java?

Question

I want to convert the date string \"Fri Sep 21 15:23:59 CEST 2012\" to \"2012-09-21T15:23:59\" in Java. I tried this with SimpleDateFormat and the following code:

Answer 1

You can use:

SimpleDateFormat input = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy");