Android parse String to Date - unknown pattern character 'X'

Question

I have Service fetch date string from web and then I want to pare it to Date object. But somehow application crashes. This is my string that I\'m parsi

Answer 1

The Android version of SimpleDateFormat doesn't support the X pattern so XXX won't work but instead you can use ZZZZZ which does the same and outputs the timezone in format +02:00 (or -02:00 depending on the local timezone).