Help parse date : MMM dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss a zzz

Question

I don't know how to get this to work. It parses but give me a wrong date all the time:
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class DateParserTest {
    public DateParserTest() {
    public static void main(String [] argv) {
        //Nov 17, 2006 1:00:00 PM MST<
        String sdate = "Nov 17, 2006 1:00:00 PM MST";
        Date date = extractDate(sdate);
        System.out.println("Orig date: " + sdate);
        System.out.println("Current date: " + date.toString());
    public static Date extractDate(String data) {
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy hh:MM:ss a zzz"); //zzz
        try {
            Date date = sdf.parse(data);
            return date;
        } catch (ParseException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
            return null;
}

Answer 1

Instead of:
"MMM dd, yyyy hh:MM:ss a zzz"you should have:
"MMM dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss a zzz"Minutes are lowercase m's