How to convert complex date string to datetime java

Question

I have the following line that I need to put in a date

Sat, May 21, 2011 21:31:35 GMT

So far I have been doing the following, but I'm not sure of the correct format to get this parsing. Any help would be appreciated!

SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date date = df.parse("Sat, 21-May-2011 21:31:35 GMT");

Thank you in advance

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Toran billups May 22, '11 at 22:50

1 answer

Bala r · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-22T22:51:45+0000

See the documentation for SimpleDateFormata format. You should have something like this.

SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz");