Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Date parsing always returning the month of January Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:17:39 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:17:41 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="XjIWM99mD7Ijfdu600oVPA"; logging-data="18132"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/D1AQooNtV3In9tAmDc9ykoGkFC5L2Db0=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:43Y3uqsQcPeRZJfU36rpOBZT9Jc= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:12542 On 2/29/2012 9:22 AM, Daniel Pitts wrote: > On 2/29/12 9:20 AM, markspace wrote: >> 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 ;-) Yeah, I was hoping I wasn't coming across as snarky or something, but in this case it really was so simple that I felt it was appropriate, esp. after I told him where it was specifically.