Java - How to convert this string to date?

Question

I am receiving this from the server and I don´t understand what the T and Z means, 2012-08-24T09:59:59Z What's the correct SimpleDateFormat pattern to convert this string to a Date object?

Answer 1

This is ISO 8601 Standard. You may use

SimpleDateFormat simpleFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");

to convert this.

Answer 2

This is the ISO datetime format, see here, T is the time separator and Z is the zone designator for the zero UTC offset.

There is a very similar, if not identical question here, see it to know how to convert this string to a Java DateTime object.