How to convert date/time strings into Java Calendar objects? [duplicate]

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I have a series of date/time strings formatted like this:"9-29-2011 9:05 PM PDT" and I need to convert this string into a java Calendar object. Once I have this Calendar object it must represent exactly this date and time (including the AM or PM). Please, what is the best way to accomplish this?

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Use DateFormat to parse the String. Pass the Date to the Calendar.setTime() method.

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Check out http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/ . Joda Time makes a lot of tricky date/time operations simple!

You will probably want to construct a custom formatter: http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/userguide.html#Input_and_Output

DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm a z"); should be close. You can then convert the Joda DateTime to Date or to a Calendar.