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Re: dates - invalid conversion!!

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From: Kurt A. Zarefoss
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 00:00
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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



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Kurt A. Zarefoss
hawk@fred.net
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