Java and dates... stupid error? **solved** thanks dighn

[Crusty]

Why does that code store "Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 CST 2004" in startDate? I'm not talking about the formatting.. but the date is wrong!

 

[dighn]

try dd instead of DD which is day in year

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: dighn
try dd instead of DD which is day in year

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Doh! I knew it was something stupid... that's what I get for writing it at 4am

Thx