java - Parsing from String to Date throws Unparsable Date Error

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I have an variable called
data, and it has today's date as in this format:
Thu May 24 13:14:41 BRT 2018. Then I format it to MySQL's Date
type format, which is yyyy-MM-dd. This code does
it:

String
            dataFormatada = new
            SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(data);

What
I want to do is to bring it back to Date type. I've tried somethings but they didn't
work. The main solution is to do as discribed in this other href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4496359/how-to-parse-date-string-to-date">
questioin, and with a little mod I got to what's suposely what I
want:

String target = "Thu Sep 28
            20:29:30 JST 2000";
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd",
            Locale.ENGLISH);
Date result = df.parse(target);
            
System.out.println(result);

But
it doesn't work as I get this error when trying to
parse:

java.text.ParseException:
            Unparseable date: "Thu Sep 28 20:29:30 JST
            2000"

So I cannot just
reformat the data variable, and I cannot bring
dataFormatada back to Date format. How do I bring
dataFormatada to Date type formatted as
yyyy-MM-dd?

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Your
target String format is in EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy format.
So you need to use EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy as pattern
instead of yyyy-MM-dd.

 String target = "Thu
            Sep 28 20:29:30 JST 2000";
 DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd
            HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
 Date result = df.parse(target);
            

            System.out.println(result);

And
if you want convert Date object i.e result to yyyy-MM-dd then
please use the below code.

            DateFormat dfDateToStr = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd", Locale.ENGLISH);

            String formattedDate = dfDateToStr.format(result);


            System.out.println("Formatted Date String :
            "+formattedDate);