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Java SimpleDateFormat Unparseable date

I'm having this awkward problem with simple date format.
I'm parsing some strings from a file and want to convert them in Date object.
Strings are like
"2012-04-19 18:33:10"
so my code is:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss");
sdf.setLenient(false);
Date d1 = sdf.parse("2012-04-19 18:33:10");
which gives me
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2012-04-19 18:33:10"
Without the
setLenient(false)
the output date is
Sun Jan 01 18:33:10 CET 2012
which is very incorrect.
I really don't understand why.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Try:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

java string date conversion

I want to convert a string to date before storing it and I used
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");
Date returnDate = format.parse(date);
When I ran this with sample date:
the input string for date conversion is 2014-05-06
the parsed date is Mon Jan 06 00:05:00 IST 2014
now when I store the returnDate in MySql the value is 2014-01-06 00:05:00
Why is the date changed ? Want to know if I am missing something. I went through the posts related to date string conversion : How to convert a date from a Datepicker to Mysql DATETIME format using java?

In your DateFormat use MM for month instead of mm, that is for minutes
Reference: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

You can use like this :
Date mDate= new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());
SimpleDateFormat mDateFormat= new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy HH:mm a");
String dateformat=mDateFormat.format(mDate);
the string ["dd MMM yyyy HH:mm a"] can be changed according to need of formate.
Like in your case : "yyyy-mm-dd

Unparsable date exception

I'm currently working on some simple project in Java and I have date in the following string:
String dateString = "Sun 7/14 03:44 AM 2013";
and want to to convert this string to Date object. I'm using following lines of code to do that. I searched site and found solution how to do this with DateFormatter:
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE M/dd hh:mm a yyyy");
Date d = format.parse(dateString);
But I'm probably doing something wrong, because I always get exception:
Unparseable date: "Sun 7/14 03:44 AM 2013"
This seems to be problem with pattern I'm using but tried different patterns and nothing work.

Certain fields such as the day of week fields and/or AM/PM marker may not match those from your default Locale. ParseException has the method getErrorOffset to determine exactly where the pattern does not match.
try
DateFormat format =
new SimpleDateFormat("EEE M/dd hh:mm a yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);

It is important to add Locale as you are parsing language day of week names.
String dateString = "Sun 7/14 03:44 AM 2013";
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE M/dd hh:mm a yyyy", Locale.US);
Date d = format.parse(dateString);

I tried this out and the following worked,
String stringDate = "Sun 7/14 03:44 AM 2013";
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MM/dd hh:mm a yyyy");
System.out.println("Parsed Date = "+format.parse(stringDate));
The output was as follows
Parsed Date = Sun Jul 14 03:44:00 BST 2013

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("/* type your own format*/");
String formattedDate = formatter.format(todaysDate);
System.out.println("Formatted date is ==>"+formattedDate);
try this code

The modern answer for the sake of completeness. While the other answers were good answers in 2013, Date, DateFormat and SimpleDateFormat are now long outdated, and I recommend you replace them with their modern counterparts:
DateTimeFormatter parser
= DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EEE M/dd hh:mm a yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse(dateString, parser);
The result is a LocalDateTime of 2013-07-14T03:44 as expected.
The format pattern string is still the same, and the need for an English language locale is the same.

Java new Date with time stamp in date format

I have used the following
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm:ss zzz");
Date date = new Date();
String formattedDate= df.format(date);
Date dateWithTime = df.parse(formattedDate);
i got the formatted date as string when i conver this into date i got error like
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Tue Feb 26 11:45:43 IST 2013"
How would convert to date or how i format a current date and get as date?

I think your code wouldn't throw ParseException. But it sure would definitely yield wrong output. your format should be:
"dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss zzz"
Note that
MM---> Months
mm---> Minutes
Test with your code with out correcting the format:
Sat Jan 26 06:24:07 GMT 2013
Test with your code with correcting the format:
Tue Feb 26 06:20:51 GMT 2013

The date format should be as follows as shown in the exception. Change it to -
EEE MMM d hh:mm:ss z yyyy

The correct simpledateformat will be
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss");

Please refer the link for proper date formatting and parsing
SimpleDateFormat

Java SimpleDateFormat Seemingly Ignoring Month and Day

I have this piece of simple code:
SimpleDateFormat sqlFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat ("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String temp = "2012-03-09 12:00:00";
System.out.println (temp);
Date last = sqlFormatter.parse (temp);
System.out.println (last);
I get this output:
2012-03-09 12:00:00
Sun Jan 01 12:00:00 EST 2012
I know is supposed to be simple, but I am hoping someone can quickly see what I am missing.

I think your pattern is a little off. I'm suprised you're not seeing an IllegalArgumentException. Try using the following pattern with lower case y's and see if that resolves your issue:
SimpleDateFormat sqlFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

Corrected code here:
SimpleDateFormat sqlFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat(
"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String temp = "2012-03-09 12:00:00";
System.out.println(temp);
Date last = sqlFormatter.parse(temp);
System.out.println(last);
You should have SimpleDateFormat instead of SimpleDateFormatter and for years you give yyyy instead of YYYY.

Once I corrected your format String - Y is not allowed, you need y - (and the typo already mentioned) it worked fine:
SimpleDateFormat sqlFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String temp = "2012-03-09 12:00:00";
System.out.println (temp);
Date last = sqlFormatter.parse (temp);
System.out.println (last);
>2012-03-09 12:00:00
>Fri Mar 09 12:00:00 EST 2012

You need to use 'yyyy' and not 'YYYY'
Here is the output
2012-03-09 12:00:00
Fri Mar 09 12:00:00 IST 2012
for the pattern
yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss