Java SimpleDateFormat Unparseable date

Question

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

Szarpul · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-23 10:35:54Z

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Try:

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

answered May 23, 2014 at 10:35

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besil Over a year ago

Thank you. I didn't know there were so many different combination in the pattern string. New thing learned! Link for doc: docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/…

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