I followed a few other solutions on this site to this dilemma, and I do not have Joda Time installed, but I'm still at a loss as to why this is failing.
I also tried removing the colons, as one solution stated, but that did not help.
currentNode.getProperty("jcr:created").getString()
= 2013-03-07T11:57:08.596-05:00
I get this error: java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2013-03-07T11:57:08.596-05:00"
<%@page import="
java.util.Date,
java.text.SimpleDateFormat,
java.text.DateFormat"
%>
<%
DateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM dd, yyyy");
DateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
String currentDate = currentNode.getProperty("jcr:created").getString();
Date date = inputFormat.parse(currentDate); // <-- Failing here
String currentDateString = outputFormat.format(date);
%>
The time zone formated as Z
should be -0500
, not -05:00
.
So I'd suggest you to replace
DateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
with
DateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSX");
See SimpleDateFormat's javadoc for more details on available formats.
If your jdk doesn't allow the X pattern, you'll have to fix the input string to remove the :
. This can be done with a regex :
currentDate = currentDate.replaceAll(":(\\d\\d)$", "$1")