DateFormat.parse issues

[Jeremy]

I can't get dates to parse with any accuracy. I have a date like this,
for example:

Fri May 25 07:58:46 GMT 2007

I am using a SimpleDateForma t with a format string of:

EEE MMM dd HH:MM:SS z yyyy

When I parse the date and print it back out, it thinks it was:

Tue Oct 25 02:00:00 CDT 2011

Which is not even remotely the same except for the "25".

Any tips on using the date parser? I guess I could just extract all the
fields into integers and make a date out of that, but it seems like
there is built-in functionality for this and I want it to work!

Thanks,
Jeremy

[Real Gagnon]

Re: DateFormat.pars e issues

Jeremy <jeremy@pinacol .comwrote in news:6%n5i.1140 6$qJ1.8078
@newsfe18.lga:

I can't get dates to parse with any accuracy. I have a date like this,
for example:
>
Fri May 25 07:58:46 GMT 2007
>
I am using a SimpleDateForma t with a format string of:
>
EEE MMM dd HH:MM:SS z yyyy
>
When I parse the date and print it back out, it thinks it was:
>
Tue Oct 25 02:00:00 CDT 2011
>

Your format string is wrong , try :

EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy

Bye.
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[Jeremy]

Re: DateFormat.pars e issues

Real Gagnon wrote:

>
Your format string is wrong , try :
>
EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy
>
Bye.

Yep, you're right. Thanks for spotting that.

Jeremy