Parsing Twitter Timestamp in Java

public static Date getTwitterDate(String date) throws ParseException {  final String TWITTER="EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZZ yyyy";  SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat(TWITTER,, Locale.ENGLISH);  sf.setLenient(true);  return sf.parse(date);}

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4521715/twitter-date-unparseable

KEYNOTE:  Locale is important for parsing date from a String using SimpleDateFormat