Behaviour of parse() method in SimpleDateFormat

[Ramaswamy Srinivasan]

Hi All,

I am trying to use SimpleDateFormat to format the date, as in the following code.

 
import java.util.Date;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 
public class DateFormatTest
{
public static void main(String arg[]){
 
String strDate = new String("2003/10/14");
String datePattern = "dd-MMM-yyyy";

SimpleDateFormat inDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/mm/dd");

try{

Date theDate = inDateFormat.parse(strDate);
System.out.println("Unformatted Date : "+theDate);

inDateFormat.applyPattern(datePattern);

System.out.println("Formatted Date : "+inDateFormat.format(theDate));
 
}catch(Exception dateParseExp){
dateParseExp.printStackTrace();
}
}
 }

The output I get is : 14-Jan-2003. The month is displayed as "Jan" invariably for all the dates.

Any clue, why such a thing is happening, or should parse() method be used more appropriately?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Cheers,
Ram
[ July 27, 2005: Message edited by: Ramaswamy Srinivasan ]

[Steve Morrow]

Lowercase 'm' is for minutes...

Change this...

new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/mm/dd");

...to this...

new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");