Ok, so I have a string, say "Tue May 21 14:32:00 GMT 2012" I want to convert this string to local time in the format May 21, 2012 2:32 pm. I tried SimpleDateFormat("MM dd, yyyy hh:mm a").parse(), but it threw an exception. So what should I do?
The exception is "unreported exception java.text.ParseException; must be caught or declared to be thrown."
in the line Date date = inputFormat.parse(inputText);
The code I ran on TextMate:
public class test{
public static void main(String arg[]) {
String inputText = "Tue May 22 14:52:00 GMT 2012";
SimpleDateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
"EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss 'GMT' yyyy", Locale.US);
inputFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Etc/UTC"));
SimpleDateFormat out = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy h:mm a");
Date date = inputFormat.parse(inputText);
String output = out.format(date);
System.out.println(output);
}
}
解决方案
The format string you provided for parsing doesn't correspond with the text format you've actually got. You need to parse first, then format. It looks like you want:
SimpleDateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
"EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss 'GMT' yyyy", Locale.US);
inputFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Etc/UTC"));
SimpleDateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy h:mm a");
// Adjust locale and zone appropriately
Date date = inputFormat.parse(inputText);
String outputText = outputFormat.format(date);
EDIT: Here's the same code in the form of a short but complete program, with your sample input:
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
String inputText = "Tue May 21 14:32:00 GMT 2012";
SimpleDateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat
("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss 'GMT' yyyy", Locale.US);
inputFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Etc/UTC"));
SimpleDateFormat outputFormat =
new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy h:mm a");
// Adjust locale and zone appropriately
Date date = inputFormat.parse(inputText);
String outputText = outputFormat.format(date);
System.out.println(outputText);
}
}
Can you compile and run that exact code?