Parse a date in JAVA

Question

I have a date as a String "20161006133408" in the format "yyyyMMddhhmmss". So I make things like:

DateFormat dfmt2 = new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyyMMddhhmmss" );
dfmt2.setLenient(false);

try {
    Date d = dfmt2.parse(updateTimeDate);
} catch{...}

And I get the following Exception at the line where I parse:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "20161006133408"

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Put `HH` for hours instead of `hh` ( `h`: Hour in am/pm (1-12) `H`: Hour in day (0-23)). — Arnaud, Oct 06 '16 at 14:49
I wonder what you have though when you passed "13" into a pattern which expects at most "12" as the hour. And I wonder why you don't care about reading the documentation. — Tom, Oct 06 '16 at 14:50
That's right, you're just lazy. That's you asked others to do your research :). — Tom, Oct 06 '16 at 14:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 06 '16 at 14:50

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Use HH for hours instead. HH takes 24-hour, hh takes 1-12 (am/pm).

answered Oct 06 '16 at 14:50

Was about to post the same. Pozdrawiam! – hpopiolkiewicz Oct 06 '16 at 14:51
Answering a Question with dozens of duplicates is not helpful. – Basil Bourque Oct 06 '16 at 17:25

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