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

The modern answer for the sake of completeness. While the other answers were good answers in 2013, Date, DateFormat and SimpleDateFormat are now long outdated, and I recommend you replace them with their modern counterparts:

    DateTimeFormatter parser 
            = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EEE M/dd hh:mm a yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
    LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse(dateString, parser);

The result is a LocalDateTime of 2013-07-14T03:44 as expected.

The format pattern string is still the same, and the need for an English language locale is the same.