Getting a weird exception Unparseable date: "6 Aug 2012"

Question

I got a date time format - "dd MMM yyyy", when trying to parse "6 Aug 2012", I get an java.text.ParseException Unparseable date.

Every thing looks fine, do you see the problem?

Answer 1

You need to mention the Locale as well...

Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMMM yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH).parse("6 Aug 2012");

Answer 2

Use something like:

DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
Date date = sdf.parse("6 Aug 2012");

Answer 3

Use the split() function with the delimiter " "

String s = “6 Aug 2012”;

String[] arr = s.split(" ");

int day = Integer.parseInt(arr[0]);
String month = arr[1];
int year = Integer.parseInt(arr[2]);

Answer 4

This should work for you. You will need to provide a locale

Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH).parse("6 Aug 2012");

Or

Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy", new Locale("EN")).parse("6 Aug 2012");