Parsing from string to date

I am a little lost here , I think i do everything ok and it still does not work 开发者_开发知识库(PaseException

    String time = "Fri Apr 15 14:29:57 IDT 2011";
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzzz yyyy");
    sdf.parse(time);

Help highly appreciated!

String time = "Fri Apr 15 14:29:57 IDT 2011";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzzz yyyy");
System.out.println(sdf.parse(time));

Works fine for me.!

May be you can try with

 SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzzz yyyy",Locale.ENGLISH);

Your default locale is not compatible with this date pattern.

Try:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzzz yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);

(I confirmed this as working)

add locale as second constructor parameter:

    String time = "Fri Apr 15 14:29:57 IDT 2011";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzzz yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
System.out.println(sdf.parse(time));