Manually setting a date using Calendar and Date

[ravl13]

Greetings,

I'm trying to take a Date called endDate, and create a second Date object called startOfEndYear which holds the first date of of endDate's year. So, if endDate was "Oct 21, 2010", then I'd want startOfEndYear to be "Jan 1, 2010". My code for attempting to do so follows:

//Assume that endDate has already been set to "Oct 21, 2010"

                cal.setTime(endDate);
		int endYear = cal.get(cal.YEAR);
		System.out.println("end year is " + endYear);
		DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM);
	
		Date startOfEndYear = df.parse("Jan 1, "+ endYear); //This line gets underlined in red in Eclipse

The explanation of the red underlining says "Unhandled exception type ParseException". How can I correctly code that last line?

Thanks,
-ravl13

[SFNYC]

Maybe you can try something like this:

$ 
      Calendar cal2 = (Calendar) cal.clone();
      cal2.set(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.JANUARY);
      cal2.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
      Date startOfEndYear = cal2.getTime();

[milovan]

surround that line with try - catch block

[ravl13]

OK, that basically works, thanks. I used similar code to revalue the original "cal" object; I didn't know how to set calendar values.

(by the way, for anyone just looking, I had already created a Calendar instance called cal in the above code, but I forgot to mention it)