java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: “Wed Jan 11 00:00:00 CET 2012”

Question

I have the next problem with this date:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Wed Jan 11 00:00:00 CET 2012"

I have this:

 DateFormat formatter ; 
      Date dateIn=null;  
       formatter = new SimpleDateFormat( "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss yyyy" ); 
       try {
        dateIn = (Date)formatter.parse(dateI);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } 

What I'm doing bad?. Thanks

Answer 1

Use timezone and also a locale

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

to reflect English language in the input string (days and month names).

Answer 2

You need to add z in your format string for including timezone. Try this:

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