Why is 01/01/2000 unparsable?

[Timothy Sam]

I'm trying to use DateFormat object like this...

        try
        {
                    DateFormat dateFormat = DateFormat.getDateInstance();
                    Date dateIssued = dateFormat.parse( passport.getDateIssued() );
                    Date dateExpiring = dateFormat.parse( passport.getDateExpiring() );
        
            if ( dateExpiring.before( dateIssued ) || dateExpiring.equals(dateIssued) )
            {
            errors.add(ActionMessages.GLOBAL_MESSAGE, new ActionMessage("passport.dateExpiring.delinquent") );
            }
            
        }
        catch(Exception ex)
        {
        ex.printStackTrace();
        }

then I get...

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "01/01/2000"

[Richard Green]

Try this

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
sdf.setLenient(false);
try{
       System.out.println(sdf.parse("10/10/2000"));
} catch (ParseException pe){
   pe.printStackTrace();
}

[Timothy Sam]

Would this solution be ok if I had to format a String like


2006-06-26 19:18:21.857


thanks for your answer!

[Campbell Ritchie]

a String like


2006-06-26 19:18:21.857

Look in the API until you find SimpleDateFormat. It's all there.

[Timothy Sam]

But I am having this error...

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2006-06-27 14:48:49.42"


Here's my method that parses a date String input

public static String parseDate(String dateString, String datePattern)
{
String newDateFormat = "";

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(datePattern);

try
{
    Date date = formatter.parse(dateString);

    newDateFormat = formatter.format(date);
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}
    
return newDateFormat;
}

and here's how I use it...

DateParser.parseDate("1980-02-14 00:00:00.0", "mm/dd/yyy")

[Vishwas Hegde]

DateParser.parseDate("1980-02-14 00:00:00.0", "mm/dd/yyy")

Use this as the pattern yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S

Later with this object (result), you can change it to your desired pattern.

Hope that helps.


~~Vishwas Hegde
SCJP 1.4,
SCJA
SCWCD 1.4