Java – try to parse the date time in PDT into zoneddatetime representation

How can I parse the date time value in the PDT time zone?

06/24/2017 07:00 AM (PDT)

I want to maintain time zones so that I can represent the time in other time zones according to the preferences of website visitors

I tried to use zoneddatetime, but I got a parsing error:

java.time.zoneddatetime.parse("06/24/2017 07:00 AM (PDT)")

The error is:

java.time.format.DateTimeParseException: Text '06/24/2017 07:00 AM (PDT)' Could not be parsed at index 0
   at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.parseResolved0(DateTimeFormatter.java:1949)
   at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.parse(DateTimeFormatter.java:1851)
   at java.time.zoneddatetime.parse(zoneddatetime.java:597)
   at java.time.zoneddatetime.parse(zoneddatetime.java:582)   ... 29 elided

Also, do you agree that I should use zoned datetime?

Solution

Since your format is non-standard, you need to assign it to the parser:

zoneddatetime.parse(
    "06/24/2017 07:00 AM (PDT)",DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm a (zzz)")
);