How can I correctly parse this kind of date?

Question

I could not find a correctly and clean working solution for my Date which is formatted like this:

201406082159

(8th of June, 21:59 here)

Last I tried was this:

SimpleDateFormat format2 = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYYMMDDHHMM", Locale.ENGLISH);

Sadly it's not working and printing out

Sun Dec 29 21:00:00 CET 2013

Answer 1

Minutes are set up by m not M

Years are set up by y not Y

Days (in month) are set up by d not D (in year)

SimpleDateFormat format2 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmm", Locale.ENGLISH);

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How can I correctly parse this kind of date?

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