title: Parsing date string
body: <p>I am trying to parse a formatted date back to a Date object but I keep encountering exceptions, here is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM d, yyyy ", Locale.ENGLISH);
  date = dateFormat.parse(dateString);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I try a date like <code>Apr 17, 2016</code> it gives me an <code>ParserException</code> to say <code>Unparseable date: "Apr 17, 2016" (at offset 12)</code>  </p>