[romah]

I am trying to get time(long type) from the given datetime string.
While searching, I found these two ways but both are not working for me.

//import net.rim.device.api.i18n.DateFormat;
//import java.text.DateFormat;
String dateString="9/14/2010 3:59:27 PM";
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss aa"); 
Date date=df.parse(dateString);
long time=date.getTime();

In above code, the problem is in df.parse(dateString);
There is no parse method for net.rim.device.api.i18n.DateFormat.
and when I tried to import "java.text.DateFormat", it says "cannot be resolved", i.e., package not found.

String dateString="9/14/2010 3:59:27 PM";
Date date= new Date(HttpDateParser.parse(dateString));
long time=date.getTime();

In this code, the second line date will result 0 millisecond.

What will be the solution?

[romah]

I found that it works fine if the dateString is changed to the format "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss".

String dateString="2009-07-31 07:59:17";
Date formatter = new Date(HttpDateParser.parse(dateString));
long time=formatter.getTime();

But our web service, which is not modifiable, returns the format "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss aa". Is there any work around or solution?

One more thing is that HttpDateParser.parse() is only accessible by signed applications. Although it won't be the problem for my application, again if there is any other way to solve it, please post the solution. Thanks !

[Dougsg38p]

Since the date format is fixed, why don't you just write your own parser? You'll extract the various date elements, place them in a Calendar instance, and then get the Date() from the calendar.