How to parse date string to Date

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How do I parse the date string below into a Date object   String target    Thu Sep 28 20 29 30 JST 2000   DateFormat df   new SimpleDateFormat  E MM dd kk mm ss z yyyy    Date result    df parse target       Throws exception     java text ParseException  Unparseable date   Thu Sep 28 20 29 30 JST 2000          at java text DateFormat parse DateFormat java 337

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I had this issue  and I set the Locale to US  then it work    static DateFormat visitTimeFormat   new SimpleDateFormat  EEE MMM dd HH mm ss zzz yyyy  Locale US     for String  Sun Jul 08 00 06 30 UTC 2012

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The pattern is wrong  You have a 3-letter day abbreviation  so it must be EEE  You have a 3-letter month abbreviation  so it must be MMM  As those day and month abbreviations are locale sensitive  you d like to explicitly specify the SimpleDateFormat locale to English as well  otherwise it will use the platform default locale which may not be English per se   public static void main String   args  throws Exception       String target    Thu Sep 28 20 29 30 JST 2000       DateFormat df   new SimpleDateFormat  EEE MMM dd kk mm ss z yyyy   Locale ENGLISH       Date result    df parse target         System out println result       This prints here  Thu Sep 28 07 29 30 BOT 2000  which is correct as per my timezone   I would also reconsider if you wouldn t rather like to use HH instead of kk  Read the javadoc for details about valid patterns

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new SimpleDateFormat  EEE MMM dd kk mm ss ZZZ yyyy      and   new SimpleDateFormat  EEE MMM dd kk mm ss Z yyyy      still runs  However  if your code throws an exception it is because your tool or jdk or any other reason  Because I got same error in my IDE but please check these http   ideone com Y2cRr  online ide  with ZZZ and with Z  output is   Thu Sep 28 11 29 30 GMT 2000

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String target    27-09-1991 20 29 30   DateFormat df   new SimpleDateFormat  dd MM yyyy HH mm ss    Date result    df parse target   System out println result      This works fine

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A parse exception is a checked exception  so you must catch it with a try-catch when working with parsing Strings to Dates  as  miku suggested

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Here is a working example   import java text ParseException  import java text SimpleDateFormat  import java text DateFormat  import java util Date   public class j4496359       public static void main String   args            try               String target    Thu Sep 28 20 29 30 JST 2000               DateFormat df   new SimpleDateFormat  EEE MMM dd kk mm ss zzz yyyy                Date result    df parse target               System out println result              catch  ParseException pe                pe printStackTrace                        Will print   Thu Sep 28 13 29 30 CEST 2000

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