Why can’t this SimpleDateFormat parse this date string?

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First, three-char months are to be represented by MMM. Second, one-two digit hours are to be represented by h. Third, Mar seems to be English, you’ll need to supply a Locale.ENGLISH, else it won’t work properly in machines with a different default locale.

The following works:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd yyyy h:mm:ss:SSSa", Locale.ENGLISH);
System.out.println(sdf.parse("Mar 30 2010 5:27:40:140PM"));

Result (I’m at GMT-4 w/o DST):

Tue Mar 30 17:27:40 BOT 2010

Also see the java.text.SimpleDateFormat javadoc.

Why you called it pdf is beyond me, so I renamed it sdf 😉

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