Parsing SimpleDateFormat

Question

I have this date that I seem to be unable to parse correctly.

String text \"Wed May 21 05:44:09 -0700 2014\";

This is my date format

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Answer 1

To parse your date you can use

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT_PATTERN);
Date parsedDate = sdf.parse("Wed May 21 05:44:09 -0700 2014");

But if that fails and you are seeing

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Wed May 21 05:44:09 -0700 2014"

then most probably Wed is not recognised by your default locale as correct day. In that case you will have to set locale to place where this word is recognized, like

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT_PATTERN, Locale.US);
//                                                               ^^^^^^^^^