Date Format

[Madhavi Gupta]

Hi,
I have a string for date pattern called dPattern which is of the form ""mm/dd/yyyy"(dPattern = ""mm/dd/yyyy").I use this pattern to make the SimpleDateFormat class as
SimpleDateFormat sd = new SimpleDateFormat(dPattern);
I take a String of the form ,say ex: ateStr = "09/12/2001";
Date dt = sd.parse(dateStr, new ParsePosition(0));
The date dt when turned as a String gives me a strange Date as Jan 2001.
Also, if I use it in the Gregorian Calendar to set the time and access the month, the month comes out as January.
Can you pl explain me the reason and also, tell me how to do it right??
Here is the total code::
dPattern = ""mm/dd/yyyy"
SimpleDateFormat sd = new SimpleDateFormat(dPattern);
Date dt = sd.parse(dateStr, new ParsePosition(0));
System.out.println(dt.toString());

Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
calendar.setTime(dt);
int month = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;

Thanks in advance,
Madhu

[Alex Ku]

Hi,
Look at the API for SimpleDateFormat.
For some reasons, sun decide "m" for Minute and "M" for Month.
So, the pattern should be "MM/dd/yyyy".
And if you take a close look of your code, the output, you will see this
QUOTE]
Mon Jan 28 00:09:00 EST 2002
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9 as 9-minute

kawaii
[ February 25, 2002: Message edited by: kawaii desu ]