Weird JAVA date formatting giving wrong result

Question

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;

public class HelloWorld{

 public static void main(String []args){
    String s = "Sep 01, 2014 6:30 pm";
    SimpleDateFormat timeFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, YYYY hh:mm a", Locale.US);
    try{
    Date startTime = timeFormat.parse(s);
    System.out.println(startTime);
    }catch(Exception e){}
 }
}

The result given is Sun Dec 29 18:30:00 CST 2013, which is totally wrong

Please help!!

possible duplicate of [SimpleDateFormat producing wrong date time when parsing "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm"](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15916958/simpledateformat-producing-wrong-date-time-when-parsing-yyyy-mm-dd-hhmm) — SparkOn, Sep 06 '14 at 14:08

SparkOn · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-06T14:02:06.233

change

SimpleDateFormat timeFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, YYYY hh:mm a", Locale.US); to

SimpleDateFormat timeFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy hh:mm a", Locale.US);

As Y stands for the Week year refer

A week year is in sync with a WEEK_OF_YEAR cycle. All weeks between the first and last weeks (inclusive) have the same week year value. Therefore, the first and last days of a week year may have different calendar year values.

More explanation on week year you can find here

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '14 at 13:56

2

Try with little y for year instead of big Y.

See link

answered Sep 06 '14 at 13:56

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