Date Format Issue

[Ragupathirajan Venkatesan]

Dear All,

I am having the string date value and I want to convert that as java date value by using the SimpleDateFormate. But it is not highlighting the wrong date. for example.

        String dateStr="13/24/2011";
 	SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
 	Date date=sdf.parse(dateStr);
 	System.out.println("Date: "+date);

above code is producing the output like Date: Thu Dec 13 00:00:00 IST 2012. I want to identify the incorrect format relevent to dd/MM/yyyy. Please suggest. Thanks in advance.

[Ravishanker kumar]

You can use regular expression or put validation separately for days, month and year.

~Ravi

[Ganesh Shirsat]

Hi,

String dateStr="13/24/2011"; 
SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); 
Date date=sdf.parse(dateStr); 
System.out.println("Date: "+date); 
[quote]    
boolean val = sdf.format(date).equals(dateStr)
if(val)
{
          System.out.println("Date is not valid");
}
[/quote]

[Campbell Ritchie]

13/24/2011 is being parsed "leniently", so December + 12 months is December next year.

Have a look through all the classes you are using and see whether they have a setLenient(false) method. See whether that would help.

[Ragupathirajan Venkatesan]

It works.Thanks a lot.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Well done What works? setLenient{false} or something different?

[Ragupathirajan Venkatesan]

Sorry for the delayed reply
code given by Ganesh works for me. Thanks again for Ganesh.

 boolean val = sdf.format(date).equals(dateStr)  
 if(val)  
 {  
           System.out.println("Date is not valid");  
 }