Dev - Parsing date string

[byersa]

Can someone tell me how to parse this JavaMail date string into a
Timestamp object?

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:49:18 -0700

Thanks,

-Al
 
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[BJ Freeman]

I started with apache.james.mailet.dates to understand the task.

Adding to the date parsing problem are systems which produce dates
formatted in non-standard ways, such as Microsoft's email server which
writes out time zones in full ("Eastern Standard Time" instead of "EST"
or "-0500") and cause Timestamp.parse() to crash.

do not have definite code that works 100% of the time. Still testing.

Al Byers sent the following on 3/29/06 9:21 PM:

> Can someone tell me how to parse this JavaMail date string into a
> Timestamp object?
>
> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:49:18 -0700
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Al
>  
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[Jacopo Cappellato]

Al,

you can use the java.text.SimpleDateFormat class:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

The pattern you have to apply is this:

"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"

So the code is:

String dateString = "Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:49:18 -0700";
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");
Date parsedDate = df.parse(dateString, new ParsePosition(0));

Hope this helps,

Jacopo

Al Byers wrote:

> Can someone tell me how to parse this JavaMail date string into a
> Timestamp object?
>
> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:49:18 -0700
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Al
>  
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