How format date in java/android

Question

I am trying to develop an android application, regarding with that I have got some data from server.

Here I need to convert a date which comes in the given format "2013-12-31T15:07:38.6875000-05:00" I need to convert this in to a date object or a calendar object how can we do this?

I have tried with code given below. But it doesn't reach my expectation

String dateString="2013-12-31T15:07:38.6875000-05:00";
Date date = null;
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm a");
try {
    date = df.parse(dateString);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}
return date;

Answer 1

Your format string doesn't match the date format you are getting. You should use the following format string:

"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSX"

• SSS is for milliseconds.
• X is for ISO 8601 timezone