Unparseable date issue with java time offset

Question

So I am receiving date in 2017-01-01T01:34:00+00:00 format from server and I have below SimpleDateFormatter picked up after seeing many examples.

SimpleDateFormat serverToClientFormat=
                 new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'",Locale.getDefault());

But when I try to parse it with below lines

serverToClientFormat.parse(object.getString("date"))

the string received from server to date format, it throws

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2017-01-01T01:34:00+00:00"

What probably could I try else to parse above format?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 01 '17 at 10:07

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You are using the literal Z instead of the Z pattern letter - so your format expects the letter Z in the input, not a time zone offset.

Also, the Z pattern doesn't accept the : in the offset. Try with X instead (without the single quotes) and it should work fine:

new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX");

edited Jan 01 '17 at 10:07

T.J. Crowder

answered Jan 01 '17 at 09:56

assylias

Sorry, but even after changing to `yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'X'` it was throwing same exception.. :( – Guruprasad J Rao Jan 01 '17 at 10:03
@GuruprasadRao: Of course it is, `'X'` means you're expecting the character `X` there. None of your other format characters is in `'`, why put that one in `'`? – T.J. Crowder Jan 01 '17 at 10:05
Sorry @T.J.Crowder .. Not familiar much with these literals, so got bit confused.. I get it now.. :) – Guruprasad J Rao Jan 01 '17 at 10:07
@assylias.. Sorry but that's throwing `java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown pattern character 'X'` Anything wrong here? – Guruprasad J Rao Jan 01 '17 at 10:10
Ok.. I had to change it to `yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ` rather and it worked.. Thanks much for your efforts.. :) – Guruprasad J Rao Jan 01 '17 at 10:33
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@GuruprasadRao It was introduced in later versions of the API - that may be the reason. – assylias Jan 01 '17 at 12:32

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