Java SimpleDateFormat: Don't forget to specify the locale
March 07, 2006Assuming your current locale is non US the following piece of code will throw a ParseException: Unparseable date: "06-Mar-2006 12:35"
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm");
date = format.parse("06-Mar-2006 12:35");
Note to myself: It's important to specify the correct Locale when parsing dates.
SimpleDateFormat format =
new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm", Locale.US);
date = format.parse("06-Mar-2006 12:35");
