Java Date How to convert String to DATE

>>My Problem is iam passing 4/6/2004

Well the format String should then be

strFormat = "m/d/yyyy";

or

strFormat = "d/m/yyyy";

Sorry, in that case

strFormat = "M/d/yyyy";

I tried this option but still returning 2 as value when i send date as

Here is Debug Staments
inside Date Function : 4/6/2004--m/d/yyyy
Date is  : Tue Jan 06 00:04:00 EST 2004
Finished Date Function  val is = 2
Day Num Returned is : 2

Sunday = 0
mondY = 1

ETC.

Still same problem

inside Date Function : 4/26/2004--M/d/yyyy
Date is  : Mon Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2004
Finished Date Function  val  is = 1
Day Num Returned is : 1

Ok in that case how can get Day of the Month

(after setting the cal with your date)

cal.setTime(yourDate);

Thats cool  Can you please tell me how can pass String date to Calendar

You can't. Use the formatting technique and parse as you're already doing

got it Thank you

8-)

System.out.println("Finished Date Function " + myDate.getDate());

answer to your problem

actually the getDay() method will return the order of the day in the week so it returns 2 which is Tuesday . since u have given April 6th which is actually Tuesday. so try

myDate.getDate();

Also when you are parsing the string for  Date using SimpleDateFormat make sure u add this line too,

myDateFormat.setLenient(false); like below


try {
     myDateFormat.setLenient(false);
     myDate = myDateFormat.parse(strDate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
     System.out.println("Invalid Date Parser Exception ");
     e.printStackTrace();
}


as it would prevent the automatic conversion of the java to add one to the mext date is u have exceeded the Date for the given month.

ie.. if u give 31 and month as 4(April) which really has 30 days only then ur date will be shown as 1 may.

hope this will work.

The comple story from date to string and back is:

            prt("Date is 25 may 2007");
            prt("25/05/05");
            SimpleDateFormat sim = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy");
            java.util.Date datum = new java.util.Date();
            try{
                  datum = sim.parse("25/05/05");
            }catch(ParseException e){}      
            prt("Java data object is"+datum);
            prt("");
            prt("datum formatted is then ...");
            
            
            SimpleDateFormat dmj= new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MMM/yyyy");
                   
        String thisDate = dmj.format(datum);
        prt("And after all it's this string:"+thisDate);
            
      }
      public void prt(String s){System.out.println(s);      }