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Tad Frysinger wrote:

> Well, maybe I missed something, but I was all over Calendar and
> GregorianCalendar, and didn't see a way to construct a *Date* from a
> string (the default toString() method of Date uses a formatter very
> similar to what you posted).

Does this help?

    // constants
    int YEAR = 0, MONTH = 1, DATE = 2;

    // current date and time
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();

    // see
    System.out.println("YEAR: " + cal.get(Calendar.YEAR));
    System.out.println("MONTH: " + cal.get(Calendar.MONTH));
    System.out.println("DAY: " + cal.get(Calendar.DATE));

    // or, if you prefer, set it to some date
    cal.setTime(new Date());

    // convert date to a string (you decide how much precision you want,
I'll just show day precision)
    String[] ydm = new String[3];
    ydm[YEAR] = Integer.toString(cal.get(Calendar.YEAR));
    ydm[MONTH] = Integer.toString(cal.get(Calendar.MONTH));
    ydm[DATE] = Integer.toString(cal.get(Calendar.DATE));

    // send the string to an exotic place for fun and games

    // exotic place unpacks string and recreates the calendar from the
string
    // adding a day to show it really changed
    Calendar calNew = Calendar.getInstance();
    try {
        calNew.set(Integer.parseInt(ydm[YEAR].trim()),
Integer.parseInt(ydm[MONTH].trim()), Integer.parseInt(ydm[DATE].trim())
+ 1);
    } catch (NumberFormatException ex){}
    // see
    System.out.println("\nYEAR: " + calNew.get(Calendar.YEAR));
    System.out.println("MONTH: " + calNew.get(Calendar.MONTH));
    System.out.println("DAY: " + calNew.get(Calendar.DATE));

Jim  // not an executable line of code :)