Date Validator scrolls the date

[Kinjal Sonpal]

Hi all,

I'm using Struts Validator for validating date input. When the user enters the date something like 15/15/2004, for expected format MM/dd/yyyy, the date is interpreted as 03/15/2005.

My validation looks like this

<field property="today" depends="required,date">
  <arg0 key="logonform.today"></arg0>
  <var>
   <var-name>datePattern</var-name>
   <var-value>MM/dd/yyyy</var-value>
  </var>
</field>

I think this happens because of SimpleDateFormat. Has anyone found workarounds for this? One solution that I've thought of, as a last resort, is providing a client side date picker and making the field read-only. But I'd really like to have a solid server-side solution than relying on client-side scripting

Please share your views on this.

Thanks and regards,
Kinjal Sonpal