RFC822 Timezone Parsing in Java

Question

I have a JS date that is being converted by Dojo into RFC822 format. The function call - dojo.date.toRfc3339(jsDate), generates the following date - 2007-02-26T20:15:00+02:00.

I have an application that uses a Java date SimpleDateFormat to parse in the dates generated above. I am having problems parsing this date format due to the timezone. I have attempted to use

yyyy-mm-DD'T'hh:mm:ssZ

This fails as the 'Z' for timezone doesn't expect a ':' character. Does anyone know how I would specify a pattern to handle a RFC822 date with the ':'?

revision:

Thanks for correctly interpreting what I am trying to do :) I was meant to say the date is generating in RFC3339 and I needed RFC822. Looks like I will have to override the JavaScript. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to do that and could specify a date format pattern without having to modify any Java Code as the date format is simply injected into a Spring bean of an application.

Just for completeness, is there a way to specify in a date format expression to ignore characters in the sequence (without doing String manipulation/replacement)? In this case I'd be saying ignore any ':' or just ignore the timezone all together?

Answer 1

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateUtil {

    public static Date ParseRFC3339DateFormat(String p_date)
    {
        try{
            SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
            String dts = p_date.replaceAll("([\\+\\-]\\d\\d):(\\d\\d)","$1$2");
            return formatter.parse(dts);
        }catch (Exception e) {
                return null;
        }
    }
}