How to convert this datetime string into a Java date variable?

Sun Jan 09 2011 22:00:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard T开发者_如何学Goime)

I have the above string coming from JavaScript.

How do I convert that into a Java DateTime?

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With SimpleDateFormat.parse. See the pattern docs located up at the top of that page to help you figure out what pattern you want to use for your parsing format string.