[OT] Date conversion problem

["Frédérick, Fabian" <fa...@prov-liege.be>]

Hi :)

    I'm trying to convert inpuDate passed in String to my bean with the 
following  (in order to extract year ... for database).

(ddepart is inputdate string).

Date dimport = new Date();
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat ("EEE MMM d hh:mm:ss z yyyy");
try{
      dimport = (Date)df.parse(ddepart);
}catch (Exception e){
System.out.println("!!!"+e) ;      
}

It doesn't seem to work....Is there an error in simpledateformat ?


Best regards,
Fabian

Re: [OT] Date conversion problem

[Matt Blum <mb...@gmail.com>]

Without knowing what the input was, it's a little difficult to know why it 
failed. SimpleDateFormat's parse method has no bugs I'm aware of, so my 
suspicion is that the String you're sending to the method isn't in precisely 
the format you specified. The time zone looks like it's in a strange place 
to me (shouldn't it be after the year?) but I could be wrong about that.

-Matt

On 8/11/05, "Frédérick, Fabian" <fa...@prov-liege.be> wrote:
> 
> Hi :)
> 
> I'm trying to convert inpuDate passed in String to my bean with the
> following (in order to extract year ... for database).
> 
> (ddepart is inputdate string).
> 
> Date dimport = new Date();
> DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat ("EEE MMM d hh:mm:ss z yyyy");
> try{
> dimport = (Date)df.parse(ddepart);
> }catch (Exception e){
> System.out.println("!!!"+e) ;
> }
> 
> It doesn't seem to work....Is there an error in simpledateformat ?
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Fabian
> 
> 
>