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I have a date in the following format: 2010-03-01T00:00:00-08:00 I have thrown the following SimpleDateFormats at it to parse it: private static final SimpleDateFormat[] FORMATS = { new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"), //ISO8601 long RFC822 zone new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssz"), //ISO8601 long long form zone new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"), //ignore timezone new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmssZ"), //ISO8601 short new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmm"), new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd"), //birthdate from NIST IHE C32 sample new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMM"), new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy") //just the year }; I have a convenience method that uses those formats like so: public static Date figureOutTheDamnDate(String wtf) { if (wtf == null) { return null; } Date retval = null; for (SimpleDateFormat sdf : FORMATS) { try { sdf.setLenient(false) retval = sdf.parse(wtf); System.out.println("Date:" + wtf + " hit on pattern:" + sdf.toPattern()); break; } catch (ParseException ex) { retval = null; continue; } } return retval; } It seems to hit on the pattern yyyyMMddHHmm but returns the date as Thu Dec 03 00:01:00 PST 2009 . What is the correct pattern to parse this date? UPDATE: I don't NEED the time zone parsing. I don't anticipate having time sensitive issues moving between zones, but how would I get the "-08:00" zone format to parse???? Unit test: @Test public void test_date_parser() { System.out.println("\ntest_date_parser"); //month is zero based, are you effing kidding me Calendar d = new GregorianCalendar(2000, 3, 6, 13, 00, 00); assertEquals(d.getTime(), MyClass.figureOutTh

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