Illegal pattern character ‘T’ when parsing a date string to java.util.Date

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I have a date string and I want to parse it to normal date use the java Date API,the following is my code:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String date="2010-10-02T12:23:23Z";
    String pattern="yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ssZ";
    SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
    try {
        Date d=sdf.parse(date);
        System.out.println(d.getYear());
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

However I got an exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal pattern character 'T'

So I wonder if I have to split the string and parse it manually?

BTW, I have tried to add a single quote character on either side of the T: 

String pattern="yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ssZ";

It also does not work.

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