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1. Why I can't parse a SimpleDateFormat with pattern "MMMMM dd" in Java?    stackoverflow.com

I need to parse a string like "February 12, 1981" as a Date. I use SimpleDateFormat. But if I do:

new SimpleDateFormat("MMMMM dd, yyyy").parse("February 12, 1981")

I get java.text.ParseException. I tried to ...