I have created a tweet using Twitters REST API. The returned JSON from Twitter from the created Tweet is in this format

```
'Tue Jan 31 11:15:15 +0000 2017'

```

Darts

```
DateTime.parse('Tue Jan 31 11:15:15 +0000 2017');

```

won't parse this format. I turned to the ***intl*** package holds some hope in dealing with this. I try to use `DateFormat` to solve this thus

```
DateFormat format = new DateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZ yyyy");
format.parse('Tue Jan 31 11:15:15 +0000 2017');

```

It fails. The only way I can get it to work is to remove the timezone part of the twitter date string

```
'Tue Jan 31 11:15:15 2017'

```

and do the following

```
var date = 'Tue Jan 31 11:15:15 +0000 2017'.split(' ');
date.removeAt(4);
DateFormat format = new DateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss yyyy");
format.parse(date.join(' '));

```

How can I parse a Twitter datetime string without removing the timezone info part?