DateFormat for Apache Common Log Format date?

[Chris Treglio]

Does anyone know of a DateFormat implementation designed to work with the date format Apache uses in its logs? The format looks like

16/Jun/2003:09:07:03 -0400

The SimpleDateFormat with a format string like "dd/MMM/yyyy:hh:mm:ss z" sort of works, but the time zone offset doesn't parse right.

[Bhagya Tangutur]

try Z instead of z.i guess it will work
the string will be "dd/MMM/yyyy:hh:mm:ss Z"
[ July 09, 2003: Message edited by: Kumar BT ]

[Chris Treglio]

can you post an example? all that gives me is a ParseException.

[Michael Böckling]

Its easy to forget, but the locale must match. This should work:

        SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss Z", Locale.US);
        Date d = df.parse("26/Mar/2015:01:53:59 +0100");

[Junilu Lacar]

Welcome to the Ranch, Michael!

It's quite an old thread that you resurrected here but thanks for giving it some closure. I actually learned something from your reply