Re: convert date in different timezones into default timezone, getting Exception in thread "main" java.text.ParseException:

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:54:18 -0500
Message-ID:
<hgdd6a$7hi$1@news.albasani.net>
Deepak wrote:

     I am reading different files and extracting date out of them .
But dates are appearing to be from different timezones ( or from
different countries ) , hence I am receiving
CODE
Exception in thread "main" java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date:
" maandag 19 november 2001 5:48"

while parsing String of date to Date Object .

The code I am using is
CODE
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(" EEEE dd MMMM yyyy
HH:mm");
          dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
           date = dateFormat.parse(strDate);

The pattern I am using in the above code is for the date of format
"maandag 19 november 2001 5:48" only , but there are other formats
also .

Please help with the parsing , so that I can save all the dates in
single default timezone .


Sounds like you need more than one DateFormat created through
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/DateFormat.html#getDateInstance(int,%20java.util.Locale)>
or other 'Locale'-aware means.

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