Java String to Date, ParseException

Question

I have a string named DateCompareOld, it has the value \"Fri Aug 12 16:08:41 EDT 2011\". I want to convert this to a date object.

 SimpleDateFormat          


        

Answer 1

Note the String passed to SimpleDateFormat() should be corrected to "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy"

Here is the code:

import java.util.Date;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
public class DateTest{
public static void main(String []args){
    String DateCompareOld = "Fri Aug 12 16:08:41 EDT 2011";
    SimpleDateFormat dateType =  new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy");
    Date convertDate = new Date();
    try{
     convertDate = dateType.parse(DateCompareOld);
    }catch(ParseException pex){
        pex.printStackTrace();
    }
    System.out.println(convertDate.toString());
  }

}