android java parse date from string

Question

In android application I'm trying to parse Date from string to find difference between two times.

SimpleDateFormat dateFormatDateAndTime = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMyyyyHHMM");
Date startDateTime = dateFormatDateAndTime.parse("060420150134");
Log.v(TAG, "startDateTime: " + startDateTime);  //Fri Oct 06 01:00:00 GMT+05:30 2017   

So, I have to parse 060420150134 so that I get 06 Apr 2015 01:34 and for that my format is ddMMyyyyHHMM

But I get here Fri Oct 06 01:00:00 GMT+05:30 2017

So i'm doing what's wrong? How to parse here?

Answer 1

You need to change the second MM (months) to mm (minutes):

SimpleDateFormat dateFormatDateAndTime = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMyyyyHHmm");