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Re: dates - invalid conversion!!

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From: Noah Clements
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 00:00
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Hi, you may have moved on, but...

Try printing the time as well as the day in your test.  I have the
feeling that the problem may be traced to timezone conversions where
you weren't expecting any.

Noah
>I have noticed this too.  All of the date class documentation states that
>days start from 1-31.  However, whenever you run it through a format
>class, it looses a day.  I thing the Date class starts at one, but the
>SimpleDateFormat class starts at zero.
>
>Just a hunch...either way it is a bug!
>
>Kurt
>
>
>Bryan Chalmers wrote:
>
>> I have the following piece of code is supposed to format a date (d) as
>> dd/mm/yyy
>>
>> System.out.println("date before is " + d);
>> SimpleDateFormat df = new    SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
>> System.out.println("date after is " + df.format(d));
>>
>> This gives the following output.
>> date before is 1958-11-20
>> date after is 19/11/1958
>>
>> I seem to have lost a day in the conversion. Can anyone tell me what I
>> am doing wrong?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bryan Chalmers
>> Texaco North Sea (UK) Company
>> Aberdeen
>> chalmbr@texaco.com
>
>
>
>--
>
>
>Kurt A. Zarefoss
>hawk@fred.net
>
>
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