problem to convert MM/dd to yyyy-MM-dd

[newbiejava]

Dear All,

I am trying to convert date format from MM/dd to yyyy-MM-dd ..
input 06/20 ..the output should be 2010-06-20 ..
but it gives me 1970-06-20..

what I missed?

DateFormat in = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd");
DateFormat out = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String dtout = out.format(in.parse("06/20"));

[mine0926]

I am not sure about the year but did you use try..catch?

 try{
    DateFormat in = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd");
    DateFormat out = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    String dtout = out.format(in.parse("06/20"));
 }
 catch(Exception){}

[newbiejava]

it does not throw any thing..

the result 1970-06-20

any idea or comment?

[mine0926]

i think it gives the minimum year since there is no input of year. you can get the current year anyway...

[Tolls]

Yes.
The first format has no year so how can the date parser determine what year to use?
It can't, so it defaults to the start of the epoch (1970).

If you want to set it to the current year then you'll have to probably append a year to the end of the first string, based on the year returned by a Calendar.getCalendar().getYear().

[kjv007]

You could do it this way bro, this code assumes that the year is 2010,

public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {
			String dtout = convertDate2010("06/20");
			System.out.println(dtout);
		} catch (ParseException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
	
	public static String convertDate2010(String oldDate) throws ParseException
	{
		DateFormat in = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
		DateFormat out = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
		return out.format(in.parse(oldDate+"/2010"));
	}
}

[Tolls]

And how is that different (bar the hard coding of the year) to my suggestion?