How to parse a date? [duplicate]

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You cannot expect to parse a date with a SimpleDateFormat that is set up with a different format.

To parse your “Thu Jun 18 20:56:02 EDT 2009” date string you need a SimpleDateFormat like this (roughly):

SimpleDateFormat parser=new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy");

Use this to parse the string into a Date, and then your other SimpleDateFormat to turn that Date into the format you want.

        String input = "Thu Jun 18 20:56:02 EDT 2009";
        SimpleDateFormat parser = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy");
        Date date = parser.parse(input);
        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
        String formattedDate = formatter.format(date);

        ...

JavaDoc: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

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