title: Android: I can't figure out SimpleDateFormat
body: <p>I have tried and tried, but I cannot get my RSS app to properly format the pubDate into a more user friendly format.  </p>
  
  <pre><code>    String str = "26/08/1994";
  
      SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); //please notice the    capital M
    Date date = formatter.parse(str);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>That code looks simple enough, but I get an unhandled type parse exception error on formatter.parse(str).  Once that gets working, I then need to convert my RSS Pubdate to MM/dd.</p>
  
  <p>The line of code to set the text for that is here:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  listPubdate.setText(myRssFeed.getList().get(position).getPubdate());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Do I just change that to:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  listPubdate.setText(date);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This looks so simple that it's driving me nuts that I can't find the answer.</p>