I have this code snippet:
DateFormat formatter1;
formatter1 = new SimpleDateFormat("mm/DD/yyyy");
System.out.println((Date)formatter1.parse("08/16/2011"));
When I run this, I get this as the output:
Sun Jan 16 00:10:00 IST 2011
I expected:
Tue Aug 16 "Whatever Time" IST 2011
I mean to say I am not getting the month as expected. What is the mistake?
Try this:
new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy")
MM is "month" (not mm)dd is "day" (not DD)It's all in the javadoc for SimpleDateFormat
FYI, the reason your format is still a valid date format is that:
mm is "minutes"DD is "day in year"Also, you don't need the cast to Date... it already is a Date (or it explodes):
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").parse("08/16/2011"));
}
Output:
Tue Aug 16 00:00:00 EST 2011
Voila!