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Android date to string conversion issue

I want to convert : Wed Apr 06 09:37:00 GMT+03:00 2016 to 02/02/2012.
What i tried
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy");
Date date = sdf.parse(mydate);
and
String mydate = "Wed Apr 06 09:37:00 GMT+03:00 2016";
SimpleDateFormat src = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzzz yyyy");
SimpleDateFormat dest = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date date = null;
try {
date = src.parse(mydate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
Log.d("deneme",e.getMessage());
}
String result = dest.format(date);
but its give error Unparseable date: "Wed Apr 06 09:37:00 GMT+03:00 2016" (at offset 0) any idea how i can parse it ?

I think you are trying to format an english locale date but your system locale is not english. So when you create the SimpleDateFormat object specify the Locale explicity.
Try this code,
String mydate = "Wed Apr 06 09:37:00 GMT+03:00 2016";
SimpleDateFormat src = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzzz yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
SimpleDateFormat dest = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
Date date = null;
try {
date = src.parse(mydate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
Log.d("Exception",e.getMessage());
}
String result = dest.format(date);
Log.d("result", result);

reset time zone offset android

I have a date like
datewithGMT >>
Tue Oct 28 07:06:54 GMT+02:00 2014
and I want to reset it to
Tue Oct 28 07:06:54 2014
Using the following
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss");
df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
Date airDate = null;
try {
airDate = df.parse(datewithGMT);
} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
I again get the date with +2 GMT how can this offset be removed

Your pattern does not correspond to the input string. You need to change your df to SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy");
You also need a second SimpleDateFormat. The completed implementation is below:
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy");
df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
SimpleDateFormat df2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE dd MMM HH:mm:ss yyyy");
df2.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
String datewithGMT = "Tue Oct 28 07:06:54 GMT+02:00 2014";
Date airDate = null;
try {
airDate = df.parse(datewithGMT);
Log.v(df2.format(airDate)); //it will print Tue Oct 28 07:06:54 2014
} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}

Convert String to date in android

How to convert the string "Thu Jul 18 13:20:12 GMT+05:30 2013" in date in android? Using DateFormatter and SimpleDateFormatter throw an exception saying cannot parse the date format while using it to convert into date.

try {
String dateString = "Thu Jul 18 13:20:12 GMT+05:30 2013";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzzz yyyy");
Date date = sdf.parse(dateString);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzzz yyyy");
try {
String dateString = "Thu Jul 18 13:20:12 GMT+05:30 2013";
Date date = formatter.parse(dateString);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
this is how we doing in android..but if you can post your code then can help you precisely

This is how you can do:
try {
String dateString = "Thu Jul 18 13:20:12 GMT+05:30 2013";
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy").parse(dateString );
}
catch (ParseException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}

You can also do this:
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("DD-MM-YYYY");
Date dd = dateFormat.parse("string")

SimpleDateFormat parsing troubles

I'm having trouble parsing a date that I'm trying to reformat. The SimpleDateFormat is giving me a real headache.
I'm getting this date from a news feed:
Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:22:00 +0100
And I need to format it to this:
06.03.2013
I could just use a hashmap with all the months but I would like to use the SimpleDateFormat, since that's what it's for.
But I can't seem to find the right pattern.

Try adding following code snippet:--
//SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss +SSSS");
SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss +SSSS", Locale.ENGLISH);
Date date = null;
try {
date = fmt.parse("Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:22:00 +0100");//Hardcoded for your case...
} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
SimpleDateFormat fmtOut = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy");
System.out.println("Date :-- " +fmtOut.format(date));

convert String to Date in android

anyone know how to convert the following string to Date?
"Fri Jul 30 16:19:36 GMT+02.00 2021"
i tried:
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzzz yyyy");
try {String temp = value2[i].trim();
expiry = formatter.parse(temp);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
but,it doesn't work.

z expects the format GMT+02:00 not GMT+02.00 replace the . and it should work.
Worked for me with the following code:
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzzz yyyy");
try {
String temp = "Fri Jul 30 16:19:36 GMT+02:00 2021";
Date expiry = formatter.parse(temp);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

Date cDate = new Date(String);
String fDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(cDate);