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Re: Date parsing always returning the month of January

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On 2/29/12 9:20 AM, markspace wrote:
> On 2/29/2012 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?
>
>
> First, good example, even though I could have used a complete compilable
> one.
>
> However, the answer is simple, and I'm going to have to ask you to
> re-read the documentation for SimpleDateFormat. You missed the meaning
> of one of those letters.
>
>
Heh, I my post has a spoiler, yours is better ;-)

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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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