Unable to parse date String to Date

Question

im want to parse a date String to a Date. I was looking in some other questions, but I didn\'t find an answer.

String mail_delivered = \"31.10.2013 17:57:58          


        

Answer 1

Try This:

public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
       //Middle European Time (MET or MEZ-German)
        String mail_delivered = "31.10.2013 17:57:58 MET";
        try {
            SimpleDateFormat df= new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss z",Locale.GERMAN);
            Date result =  df.parse(mail_delivered);  
            System.out.println(result);
        } catch (ParseException pe) {
            pe.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

Output :- Thu Oct 31 22:27:58 IST 2013

Answer 2

In German, "Central European Time" is "Mitteleuropäische Zeit", so if you want to use Locale.GERMAN, change CET to MEZ and it works.

String mail_delivered = "31.10.2013 17:57:58 MEZ";

For a list of all the legal time zone strings for a given locale, use this:

DateFormatSymbols.getInstance(Locale.GERMAN).getZoneStrings()