ParseException when parsing a date of yyyy-MM-dd format

Question

private SimpleDateFormat dateFormatMonth = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy", Locale.getDefault());
Date date = dateFormatMonth.parse(strtdate[0]);

strdate[0] contains "2018-06-11"

I'm getting a unparsable exception on this line:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2018-06-11"

As an aside consider throwing away the long outmoded and notoriously troublesome `SimpleDateFormat` and friends, and adding [ThreeTenABP](https://github.com/JakeWharton/ThreeTenABP) to your Android project in order to use `java.time`, the modern Java date and time API. It is so much nicer to work with. — Ole V.V., Jul 05 '18 at 09:52
`LocalDate.parse(strtdate[0])`. Since your date string conforms with the ISO 8601 standard, no explicit formatter is needed. So there’ll be no chance of specifying an incorrect format. Also the modern `LocalDate` is a date without time of day, which clearly seems to match your requirements better (a `Date` despite its name is a point in time). — Ole V.V., Jul 05 '18 at 09:58

Barns · Answer 1 · 2018-07-05T14:00:22.473

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You are getting the error because you are using the wrong pattern to parse the date. Use this instead:

private SimpleDateFormat dateFormatMonth = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd", Locale.getDefault());
Date date = dateFormatMonth.parse(strtdate[0]);

Assuming "06" is the month and "11" is day.

edited Jul 05 '18 at 14:00

answered Jul 04 '18 at 16:05

Barns

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