Parsing UTC time from Twitter's created_at field

Twitter UTC Date Parser

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;



/** Parse UTC time from Twitter's created_at field.
 * 
 * Compile and run: javac TwitterDateParser.java && java TwitterDateParser
 * 
 * See: 
 * - http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
 * - http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/DateFormat.html
 * - http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Locale.html
 * - https://dev.twitter.com/docs/platform-objects/tweets
*/
public class TwitterDateParser {
	public static Date parseTwitterUTC(String date) 
		throws ParseException {

	 	String twitterFormat="EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZZ yyyy";

	 	// Important note. Only ENGLISH Locale works.
		SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat(twitterFormat, Locale.ENGLISH);
		sf.setLenient(true);

	  	return sf.parse(date);
	}

	public static void main (String[] args) 
		throws Exception {
      System.out.println( parseTwitterUTC("Wed Aug 27 13:08:45 +0000 2008").toString() );          
    }

}

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