regarding dateformat

[indu iyengar]

Hi ,
am getting exception while formatting date from "dd-mmm-yyyy" to "yyyy-mm-dd":

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");
			Date datestr = formatter.parse(dob);
			format_dob = formatter.format(datestr);
			System.out.println(" FORMATTED DATE -->>> "+format_dob);    

which results in

 java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "09-Sep-2010"   

[Rob Spoor]

You try to parse (String to Date) "09-Sep-2010" using "yyyy-mm-dd". That's not going to work. You want to parse with one DateFormat, then format (Date to String) with another DateFormat. Remember, Date objects only have a format for debugging purposes.

[indu iyengar]

thank you Rob ... I got it..

[James Sabre]

indu iyengar wrote:thank you Rob ... I got it..

and that should be

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MMM-dd");  

since 'mm' denotes minutes.

[Rob Spoor]

Uhm, yeah. Definitely. I overlooked that one