Parse RSS pubDate to Date object in java

You can define the date format you are trying to parse, using the class SimpleDateFormat:

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz");Date date = formatter.parse("Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:01:00 GMT");

Additionally, for non-English Locale's, be sure to use the following when parsing dates in English:

new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz", Locale.ENGLISH);

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If you need to have an RFC822 compliant date, try this :

DateFormat dateFormatterRssPubDate = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z", Locale.ENGLISH);

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For the lucky one that can use the Java 8 LocalDateTime:

LocalDateTime localDateTime = LocalDateTime.from(DateTimeFormatter.RFC_1123_DATE_TIME.parse("Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:01:00 GMT"));

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