javaandroidkotlindate-parsing

Android Unparseable date exception when try to parse date format

I try to parse this date "Wed Jul 12 2023 23:58:20 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)" using this code

  val sdf = SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss ", Locale.getDefault())
    val time = try {
        val mDate = sdf.parse(input)
        mDate!!.time
    } catch (e: ParseException) {
        -1
    }

But I get this error

Unparseable date: "Wed Jul 12 2023 23:58:20 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)"

Solution

  • This only happens if the localization changed. on my case the function works fine in English but when the app turns to Arabic here I faced the issue ,

    I Changed Locale.getDefault() to Locale.ENGLISH and the problem solved