Android Question Unparseable date

[Pendrush]

I'm getting this error on some devices

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Sun, 05 Feb 2017 22:06:02 +0100" (at offset 0)

with this code

DateTime.DateFormat = "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"
Dim sDate As String = "Sun, 05 Feb 2017 22:06:02 +0100"
Dim lngDate As Long = DateTime.DateParse(sDate) '<- Error in this line

I'm unable to reproduce it on my devices, but I can see errors on live (store) application.

 

[Erel]

Your code will fail on devices with non-English locales.

Add this code to Service_Create of the starter service:

Dim jo As JavaObject
jo.InitializeStatic("java.util.Locale").RunMethod("setDefault", Array(jo.GetField("US")))

This will set the default locale to be US (of the process only) and the dates will be parsed correctly.