parsing - Java SimpleDateFormat parse Timezone like America/Los_Angeles

Question

I want to parse the following string in Java and convert it to a date:

DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140423T120000

I tried this:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("'DTSTART;TZID='Z':'yyyyMMdd'T'hhmmss");
Date start = sdf.parse("DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140423T120000");

And this:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("'DTSTART;TZID='z':'yyyyMMdd'T'hhmmss");
Date start = sdf.parse("DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140423T120000");

But it still doesn't work. I think the problem is in America/Los_Angeles. Can you help me please?

Thank you

Answer 1

Try this one using TimeZone.

Note: You have to split your date string before doing this operation.

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd'T'hhmmss");

    TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles");
    sdf.setTimeZone(tz);

    Date start = sdf.parse("20140423T120000");

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In SimpleDateFormat pattern Z represent RFC 822 4-digit time zone

For more info have a look at SimpleDateFormat#timezone.