a piece of code to reformat a date which doesn't perform well on Android devices.

reformatTwitterDate.java

private static final String TW33T0R_DATE_PATTERN = "HH:mm:ss - MMM dd";
private static final String TWITTER_DATE_PATTERN = "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy";

/**
 * @param d The datestring as received from the twitter api
 * @return the date formatted in tw33t0r format
 */
private static String reformatTwitterDateToTw33t0rRepresentation(final String d) {
	SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(TWITTER_DATE_PATTERN);
	try {
		final Date date = formatter.parse(d);
		formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(TW33T0R_DATE_PATTERN);
		return formatter.format(date);
	} catch (final ParseException e) {
		Log.w("date parsing", e.getMessage() + " will return input as result");
		return d;
	}
}