Help required in Dates/ SimpleDateFormat

[Sridhar Ranganthan]

Hi,

Please find my program here

 
     try
     {
     DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/mmm/yyyy"); 
       Date today = df.parse("20/12/2005");  
      System.out.println("Today = " + df.format(today));
      }catch(Exception e){

System.out.println("EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE "+e.getMessage());
}

output :- Today = 20/012/2005
According to the input it should display 20/dec/2005.
If i pass input 25/1/2005 and new SimpleDateFormat("mm/dd/yyyy") output should be 01/25/2005.
Based on the format patterns it should format the date value. Please help me the same.

Thanks,
Sridhar.R

[Campbell Ritchie]

Do you really want the month in the format 012? I have never seen a month written like that. 1, 01 and 12, yes, but never 012.

[Sridhar Ranganthan]

No, When i execute this program i got the output like that,

Please help me the same based on the patterns date value it should change. Date value will come through the run time/DB.

Thanka,

[Henry Wong]

Lower case "m" stand for minutes -- not months. The special logic that replaces "DEC" for 12, if there is enough room, don't apply here.

Henry

[Rob Spoor]

Lowercase m means minutes. For months use uppercase M.

Edit: wow, Henry pulled a Rob on me