Problem in Converting String to Date

You're specifying a 'T' and a timezone in your format, but they're not present in the string you're parsing.

I'm assuming from the way you're printing out the date, that your thinking is along these lines: "sdfInput will parse the input string, no matter what format it's in, and will produce a Date object. That Date object wil have the format specified in sdfInput."

This is wrong on a couple of fronts:

1) DateFormat doesn't magically figure out what format it's supposed to use for the String it's parse()***. The String has to match the DF's format.

2) Dates don't have formats. Only Strings do. A Date object is just a long. There's no relationship whatsoever between the Date that you get from parse() and the format that was used to produce it. When you print out a Date as you're doing, its toString method is called, which in turn uses a default format for your Locale.

If you want to turn a date string in one format into a date string in another format, use two different DateFormat objects with two different formats. Date date = df1.parse(inputString);

String outputString = df2.format(date);

jverda at 2007-7-13 1:10:47 >