How can I insert special characters in SimpleDateFormat?

java simpledateformat

Mahmoud Saleh · May 26, 2010 · Viewed 16.5k times · Source

I want to insert the word 'at' in a SimpleDateFormat so a date would look like:

Wed, 26 May 2010 at 11:17am

I'm able to make it appear without the at, like this

Wed, 26 May 2010 11:17am

by using

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy hh:mma");

How can I insert the word "at"?

Answer

You can escape literals using single quotes.

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy 'at' hh:mma");

This will output Wed, 26 May 2010 at 11:17am