Chitika

Thursday, October 28, 2004

SimpleDateFormat bug

I've just realized that SimpleDateFormat has an unexpected behavior. I don't know whether I should refer to this as a bug or not, you guys decide.. :D

Try this..

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat ("dd/MM/yyyy");
try {
  System.out.println (df.parse("31/11/2004"));
  System.out.println (df.parse("-1/-1/-1"));
} catch (ParseException e) { }

In my current implementation, I perform some sanity checking towards this behavior, but am I the only one who has to deal with this?
I've been searching in Google, but I can't seem to find anyone else having the same problem as I do..
Anyway, I'm using JDK 1.4.1_01 for Win2K (just for the record)..


2 comments:

  1. What is the output result, and what did you expected?

    Do you expect to get ParseException?

    Try to add this df.setLenient(false);

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  2. Thank You whoever posted comment. The solution to add below line works for me:
    this df.setLenient(false);

    - Thank You

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