ParseException when parsing 3 character abbreviated month using SimpleDateFormat

Question

Here is my code,

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(\"dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss\");
Date dft  = (Date) format.parse(\"16-MAY-2018 09:30:22:000\");
         


        

Answer 1

The pattern should be MMM because there are three characters in the month.

You should also prefer java.time classes to the ones you're currently using if you're on Java 8 or above:

DateTimeFormatter formatter = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
    .appendPattern("dd-MMM-yyyy")
    .appendLiteral(' ')
    .append(ISO_LOCAL_TIME)
    .toFormatter();

LocalDateTime timestamp = LocalDateTime.parse("16-May-2018 09:30:22", formatter);