java. text. Parseexception: unresolved date: “Thu Jan 19 2012 08:00 PM”

I want to resolve an appointment My string date is "Thu Jan 19 2012 08:00 PM" The code I want to parse is:

format = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd yyyy hh:mm aaa");
this.settDate(new Timestamp((format.parse(sDate)).getTime()));

But it doesn't work How do I parse this date?

The complete method is:

public void saveTask(int iDevice,String description,String sDate) throws ParseException {
    format = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd yyyy hh:mm aaa");
    this.setideviceid(iDevice);
    this.setsDescription(description);
    this.settDate(new Timestamp((format.parse(sDate)).getTime()));
    DatabaseManager.save(this);
}

Exceptions:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Thu Jan 19 2012 01:00 AM"

Debugging picture:

thank you!

Solution

Try the following code... Tested and working

String dateStr = "Thu Jan 19 2012 01:00 PM";
    DateFormat readFormat = new SimpleDateFormat( "EEE MMM dd yyyy hh:mm aaa");

    DateFormat writeFormat = new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
    Date date = null;
    try {
       date = readFormat.parse( dateStr );
    } catch ( ParseException e ) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    String formattedDate = "";
    if( date != null ) {
    formattedDate = writeFormat.format( date );
    }

    System.out.println(formattedDate);

The output is 2012-01-19 13:00:00

Cheers! Happy to help!!!