Unparsable date exception

Question

I\'m currently working on some simple project in Java and I have date in the following string:

String dateString = \"Sun 7/14 03:44 AM 2013\";
         


        

Answer 1

Certain fields such as the day of week fields and/or AM/PM marker may not match those from your default Locale. ParseException has the method getErrorOffset to determine exactly where the pattern does not match.

try

DateFormat format = 
                new SimpleDateFormat("EEE M/dd hh:mm a yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);