/* * GPSDateCheck.java: sample code parsing GPS dates using SimpleDateFormat * * author: R. Hasker */ import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; public class GPSDateCheck { public static void main(String[] args) { SimpleDateFormat sdf = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'"); String time = "2014-02-19T13:17:44.000Z"; Date dt = null; try { dt = sdf.parse(time); } catch ( ParseException e ) { System.out.println("Confused about parsing " + time); } System.out.println("Parsed date: " + dt); } }