Java DATE Parsing

Question

I´m having a stupid problem with java.util.Date.

I have this line of code, but I don´t understand why this date is unparseable with this format.

Answer 1

Seems to be a Locale-related problem.

If I set a French locale, the pattern does not work. If I set the Locale to be US in the SimpleDateFormat constructor, it does works.

SimpleDateFormat dFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT, Locale.US);

Answer 2

If your system uses a locale other than English you need to use this constructor:

SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT,Locale.ENGLISH);

If this is not the problem, you should format a date using the same formatter and compare the output to your input string.

Answer 3

I don't see anything wrong with this. It executes for me without error, and returns:

Sat Dec 31 09:00:00 GMT 2011