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

Since Z and XXX are different, I've implemented the following workaround:

// This is a workaround from Z to XXX timezone format
new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ") {

    @Override
    public StringBuffer format(Date date, StringBuffer toAppendTo, FieldPosition pos) {
        StringBuffer rfcFormat = super.format(date, toAppendTo, pos);
        return rfcFormat.insert(rfcFormat.length() - 2, ":");
    }

    @Override
    public Date parse(String text, ParsePosition pos) {
        if (text.length() > 3) {
            text = text.substring(0, text.length() - 3) + text.substring(text.length() - 2);
        }
        return super.parse(text, pos);
    }
}