SimpleDateFormat does not support timezone
I have a date object in the following format:
Sun Jan 20 10:12:27 GMT + 02: 00 2013
the above time is displayed correctly in Microsoft Outlook:
Sun 1/20/2013 12:12 PM (This time is in GMT + 2 →)
when trying to format a date object with, it SimpleDateFormat
appears as in Outlook using the following code:
SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat(
"EEE M/d/yyyy hh:mm a");
String receivedDate = sdf.format(email.getDateTimeReceived());
formatting result:
Sun 1/20/2013 10:12 AM
so there is no two hour time zone difference.
please advise how to fix this, thanks.
If I understand correctly, you want to format the date using GMT timezone.
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE M/d/yyyy hh:mm a");
dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
String formattedDate = dateFormat.format(date);
You forgot to report SimpleDateFormat
to include time zone information.
This will do the trick:
SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat(
"EEE M/d/yyyy hh:mm a zzzZ yyyy");
Pay attention to the upper case Z
at the end to show the time difference
This will print:
Sun 1/20/2013 12:09 pm CET + 0100 2013
if you need it to be GMT you can force it like this:
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
It will now print:
Sun 1/20/2013 11:11 GMT GMT + 0000 2013
if you don't need AM / PM just remove a