DateFormat gives ParseException: Unparsable date error

Question

I am trying to parse by date:

final SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm");

This is the error I am getting:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2013-04-28 04"

The format you provided does not match the input `2013-04-28 04`. — 1615903, Nov 04 '16 at 07:52
as stated in the comments above, you can try with the input : `2013-04-28 04:00` and notice the `:00` for minutes — meJustAndrew, Nov 04 '16 at 07:53
You'd need to change `MMM` to `MM` as well... oh, and switch the day/year around. Basically, hardly *anything* in your format string matches what's in the value. — Jon Skeet, Nov 04 '16 at 07:54
@meJustAndrew The month format doesn't match either, `MMM` is Jan, Feb, Mar etc. — 1615903, Nov 04 '16 at 07:54

score 1 · Answer 1 · 2016-11-04T08:12:52.093

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The date "2013-04-28 04" is in the form yyyy-MM-dd HH

which does not match the format dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm

You'd want something like "28-Apr-2013 04:00"

Here is some documentation of SimpleDateFormat and here about ParseException

edited Nov 04 '16 at 08:12

answered Nov 04 '16 at 07:57

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