SimpleDateFormat and 2013-01-17T00:00:00-06:00

Question

What would be the correct format to use in SimpleDateFormat to parse incoming dates that look like this: "2013-01-17T00:00:00-06:00"?

Answer 1

This format should work:

"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX"

Answer 2

You have to trim the last colon to align with java's zone info format of "-0600".

Try this:

String str = "2013-01-17T00:00:00-06:00";
new SimpleDataFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ssZ").parse(str.replaceAll(":(..)$", "$1"));