Re: Date parsing problem

I need to parse date and time from a String containing
year-month-day hours:minutes:seconds and time zone.
The code in the SSCCE below works in java 1.3, but produces a
ParseException about unparseable date in java 1.5.
Why doesn't it work in 1.5 and how should I fix it?

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class TestSDF {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
     try {
       String str = "2009-04-06 08:30:45+03";
       String format = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:sszz";
       SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
       Date date = sdf.parse(str);
       System.out.println(date);
     } catch (Exception e) {
       System.out.print("Exception: ");
       e.printStackTrace();
     }
   }
}