Twitter date unparseable?

Question

I want to convert the date string in a Twitter response to a Date object, but I always get a ParseException and I cannot see the error!?!

Input string: Thu Dec 23 18

Answer 1

You should not have ZZZZZ but only Z for the timezone.

See samples in http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html for more information.

EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z > Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700