Java Unparsable date

Question

I have a string with the format: String dateString = \"2014-03-17T20:05:49.2300963Z\"

Trying this:

SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateF         


        

Answer 1

You need to provide as many S as you have in your date String. In this case, 7

SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'kk:mm:ss.SSSSSSSX");

This is required because, otherwise, the DateFormat doesn't know where the milliseconds end and where the time zone starts.

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Note also, that

2300963

as a millisecond value means 2300 seconds and 963 milliseconds. Why do you have it that way? Why aren't those seconds part of the value in their corresponding position? When the DateFormat parses it, they will be added.