Date parsing error..???

[Gaurav Jain]

I have a string coming in the format OCT/15/2004.
I have to convert this in to a date object.
I am using th following code:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM/DD/yyyy");
value="Jul/13/2004";
sdf.parse(value));
Here value is OCT/15/2004.
The date object i get is Jan/13/2004.
No matter what month is passed the parsed date object always has the month as Jan.
What is going wrong?

[Joe Ess]

Works fine for me.

 
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class test{
   public static void main(String args[]){
      try{
      String s = "Jul/13/2004";
      SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM/dd/yyyy");
      Date d = sdf.parse(s);
      System.out.println(d);
      } catch (Exception e){
      e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
}

  
C:\junk>java test
Tue Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2004

[Pavan Panduga]

Hi Gaurav,

take a look at javadoc of SimpleDateFormat for defined formats.

D  Day in year  Number    
d  Day in month  Number   

new SimpleDateFormat("MMM/DD/yyyy"); is different from
new SimpleDateFormat("MMM/dd/yyyy");

hope this helps,
Pavan

[Gaurav Jain]

Thanks it worked for me now.
dd instead of DD did the trick