java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ" - SimpleDateFormat

Question

I would appreciate any help with finding bug for this exception:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2007-09-25T15:40:51.0000000Z"

and following code:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
Date date = sdf.parse(timeValue);
long mills = date.getTime();
this.point.time = String.valueOf(mills);

It throws expcetion with Date date = sdf.parse(timeValue); .

timeValue = "2007-09-25T15:40:51.0000000Z"; , as in exception.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Z represents the timezone character. It needs to be quoted:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'");