Reading a formatted date as a Calendar or Date object in Java

Question

I'm trying to create a Date or Calendar object from a String representation of the date in Java. I tried using SimpleDateFormat.parse, but the result produced is totally different from what I gave as input. Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong here?

import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.text.*;
class IdeOne
{
  public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
  {
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYYMMdd");
    sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
    Date dt = sdf.parse("20141208");
    System.out.println(dt.getDay() + " " + dt.getMonth() + " " + dt.getYear());
    System.out.println(sdf.format(dt));
  }
}

I am getting output

0 11 113
20141229

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 16 '14 at 07:49

1

You have to use lower y for year :

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");

Because upper Y is week year. For more information read the documentation of SimpleDateFormat

answered Dec 16 '14 at 07:49

Jens

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 16 '14 at 08:01

Try to use This:

class Ideone
{
    public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
    {
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
        sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
        Date dt = sdf.parse("20141208");
                Calendar c=Calendar.getInstance();
                c.setTime(dt);
                System.out.println(c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) + " " + c.get(Calendar.MONTH)+ " " + c.get(Calendar.YEAR));
        System.out.println(sdf.format(dt));
    }
}

Reading a formatted date as a Calendar or Date object in Java

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