 <p>You can simple parse that date as shown below.</p> <pre><code>package com.test; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; public class Sample { public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException { SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX"); System.out.println(sdf.parse("2016-07-21T11:25:00.000+01:00")); } } </code></pre>