Android Simpledateformat Fails To Parse Datetime (works Fine On Sun 1.6 Jre)

Any ideas why the followng fails on Android 2.2... java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: 2011-02-16 11:38:03.328 UTC ...while it works fine on a sun JRE 1.6 ? DateFormat dat

Solution 1:

Use this instead

DateFormatdateFormat=newSimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS z");

Solution 2:

I have a workaround now:

DateFormatdateFormat=newSimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S 'UTC'");
try
{
  Datedate= dateFormat.parse("2011-02-16 11:38:03.328 UTC");
}
catch (ParseException e)
{
  e.printStackTrace();
}

This allows me to at least parse the date in Android 2.2. My application has been modified to try "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S 'UTC'" and then try "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S z" if the first parse fails

Solution 3:

Try specifying the locale like this:

DateFormatdateFormat=newSimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S z", Locale.ENGLISH);

Solution 4:

I have copied this code and got casting exception...

try this code of mine

java.text.SimpleDateFormatformat=newSimpleDateFormat(
                    "dd-MM-yyyy");
            java.util.Calendarcal= Calendar.getInstance(newSimpleTimeZone(0,
                    "GMT"));
            format.setCalendar(cal);
java.util.Datedate=null;
            try {
                date = format.parse(EditProfile.dateOFBirth);
            } catch (ParseException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }