how to parse date using SimpleDateFormat in java of type 2015 01 13T10:24:55Z

i have the following date string coming from grails services in android app. 

2015-01-13T10:24:55Z

Now i want to parse this string using SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssz"); but i am getting the error following error in logcat. 

01-13 10:53:50.674: W/System.err(1794): java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2015-01-13T10:24:55Z" (at offset 10)

please let me know about how to parse this type of string.

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Currently you're using the "general time zone" specifier. In order to have Z interpreted as "this value is in UTC", you should use X:

new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX", Locale.US)

X is an ISO-8601 time zone specifier, which includes Z for UTC.

Alternatively, you could quote it as a literal and explicitly specify the time zone as UTC:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'",
                                               Locale.US);
format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Etc/UTC"));

It's important to explicitly set the time zone in this case, as otherwise the value will be parsed using the system default time zone.

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