title: java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date
body: <p>In my project, I am trying to parse date format like this "Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 GMT+06:30 2014" to dd-MM-yyyy but I got the following error. I am hoping someone to solve me this problem.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,</p>
  
  <pre><code>10-20 13:03:01.390: W/System.err(23409): java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 GMT+06:30 2014" (at offset 0)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>parseDate.java</p>
  
  <pre><code>SimpleDateFormat formatter_date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
  String sdate="Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 GMT+06:30 2014";
      try {
          Date _date= formatter_date.parse(sdate);
          holder.txtDate.setText(String.valueOf(_date));
  
      } catch (ParseException e) {
          // TODO Auto-generated catch block
          e.printStackTrace();
      }
  </code></pre>