Convert from String to Date throws Unparseable date exception [duplicate]

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I want to convert a Date to a String but I have some problems. My code is this:

SimpleDateFormat formato = new SimpleDateFormat(
            "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy");

    String hacer = "Fri Nov 01 10:30:02 PDT 2013";
    Date test = null;
    test = formato.parse( hacer);
    System.out.println("prueba===>" + test);

But nothing something is wrong eclipse shows me this error:

Unparseable date: "Fri Nov 01 10:30:02 PDT 2013"
at java.text.DateFormat.parse(Unknown Source)

some help?

Answer 1

Probably your default locale doesn't support English months in MMM. For example in Poland MMM supports "styczeń" but not "Jan" or "January"

To change this In SimpleDateFormat you need to set locale which supports months written in English, for example

new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);