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Re: Date parsing always returning the month of January

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On 2/29/12 8:46 AM, laredotornado wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Java 6.  Hoping someone can see the simple error I have
> missed.  I'm trying to parse a date.  I have
>
> 		final String formattedStr = "2012-03-01 01:30:00";
> 		final String format = "yyyy-MM-DD HH:mm:ss";
> 		final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
> 		try {
> 			ret = sdf.parse(formattedStr);
> 		} catch (ParseException e) {
> 			e.printStackTrace();
> 		}
> 		String retStr = ret.toString();
>
> The value of "retStr" is "Sun Jan 01 01:30:00 CST 2012".  In fact, the
> month of the date string is always getting converted to January, even
> though above it shoudl be March.  Where is my date parsing going
> wrong?
The "DD" should be "dd".  "DD" is "Day of Year", so this is saying its 
the first day of the year. "dd" is "Day of Month".

Often, when I'm having trouble with date parsing or formatting, its 
because I made a mistake on the format string. The javadocs fix my 
mistake in seconds.

HTH,
Daniel.

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Date parsing always returning the month of January laredotornado <laredotornado@zipmail.com> - 2012-02-29 08:46 -0800
  Re: Date parsing always returning the month of January markspace <-@.> - 2012-02-29 09:20 -0800
    Re: Date parsing always returning the month of January Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-02-29 09:22 -0800
      Re: Date parsing always returning the month of January markspace <-@.> - 2012-02-29 11:17 -0800
  Re: Date parsing always returning the month of January Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-02-29 09:21 -0800
  Re: Date parsing always returning the month of January Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-02-29 15:30 -0700

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