title: Simpledateformat unparseable date
body: <p>I have a <code>String</code> in a database (<code>match.getDate</code>) that has the following date format:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><strong>01/04/2018</strong></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>This is the date I want to format, stored as day/month/year. I want to format this for my Android app.</p>
  
  <p>I want to format the date into:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Sun 01 Apr 2018</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>My code below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SimpleDateFormat fDate = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
  try {
      textViewDate.setText(fDate.parse(match.getDate()).toString());
  } catch (ParseException ex) {
      System.out.println(ex.toString());
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This outputs:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Sun Apr 08 00:00:00 GMT+00:00 2018.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have also tried <code>"EE, MM d, yyyy"</code>, but it gives me:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "01/04/2018"</p>
  </blockquote>