title: Fri Mar 30 00:00:00 CET 14 to dd/mm/yyyy
body: <p>I try to parse format date <code>Fri Mar 30 00:00:00 CET 14</code> to dd/mm/yyyy</p>
  
  <p>this  is my code </p>
  
  <pre><code>   SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
     System.out.println(formatter.parse(date_retour.toString()));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>error <code>java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Fri Mar 30 00:00:00 CET 14"</code></p>
  
  <p>help please</p>
  
  <p>it is okay now </p>
  
  <pre><code>    try {
          SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z", Locale.ENGLISH);  
          SimpleDateFormat formatter2 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");  
          Date date;
          date = formatter.parse(date_retour.toString());
          donnees [i][9]  =formatter2.format(date);
      } catch (ParseException ex) {
          Logger.getLogger(operation2.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
      }
  </code></pre>