Java Date

[Arathi Raj]

Hi,
I have a below method.
The input to this method comes from file. What happens is if the input is say 20083030, then it is conveting to 06/30/2010. Which is not right. Is there any alternative to fix this issue.

public static String getFormattedDate(String s) {
String retDate = null;
if(s == null || s.equalsIgnoreCase(""))
return retDate;
if(s.startsWith("*"))
return s;
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
SimpleDateFormat format1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
try {

Date dt = format1.parse(s);

retDate = format.format(dt);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

Thanks

return retDate;
}

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Why is this not right? 2008/30/30 is the 30th day of the 30th month of 2008. Since there's only 12 months in a year, the 30st month of 2008 is interpreted as 30 months since the start of 2008; or June, 2010.

[Jesper de Jong]

To make SimpleDateFormat throw an exception instead of parsing the string to some strange date, call setLenient(false) on the SimpleDateFormat object before calling parse().
[ March 18, 2008: Message edited by: Jesper Young ]