I'm having an issue with SimpleDateFormat in Java. My code is returning the wrong date. Help please.
String date_str = "Tue Mar 08 09:44:55 EST 2022";
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM D HH:mm:ss z yyyy").parse(date_str);
// Output: Sat Jan 08 14:44:55 GMT 2022
d, not D for the day of the month. D is the day in the year, so 8 is the 8 of January.
String date_str = "Tue Mar 08 09:44:55 EST 2022";
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss z yyyy").parse(date_str);
// ^---Here
// Output: Tue Mar 08 15:44:55 CET 2022
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