posted 17 years ago
You can't. A typecast of an object reference cannot change the object into a different kind of object.
If you had an object reference that was declared as a java.util.Date, but you knew that it actually referred to one of the subclasses, java.sql.Date or java.sql.Timestamp, you could typecast the object reference to one of those subclasses.
If you have a java.sql.Timestamp and you want to make a java.sql.Date, you need to construct a new java.sql.Timestamp that represents the same time as the java.sql.Date does. You can do that with: -
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