title: Java Unparseable date: America/Chicago Timezone
body: <p>I'm having trouble with my app trying to parse a date with the America/Chicago timezone. I have reviewed a bunch of other ParseException questions, and I think I've gotten all the common gotchas with date parsing in Java. The following code works for all other date/times I've encountered, but all the dates with the America/Chicago timezone are for some reason unparseable. </p>
  
  <p>I set the locale for the dateFormat, and that didn't matter. I checked that each of the other parts were fine, I removed invisible control characters, I re-typed the string to make sure no nefarious characters were copy/pasted in, yet it throws an exception every time. </p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts? </p>
  
  <pre><code>dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd k:mm:ss zzz ");
  dateString = "Wed May 02 15:45:47 America/Chicago ";
  
  try {
      entry.setDateTaken(dateFormat.parse(dateString));
  }  catch (java.text.ParseException e) { }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have my reasons for wanting to not go the Joda route, and this is a simple enough thing I shouldn't have to. </p>