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I dont think you got it

Posted by Matt Gerrans on November 05, 2001 at 1:29 PM

Why are you doing that silly parseInt() stuff? All the tools you need are built into DateFormat() and Date(). If you have a string in a date, use DateFormat.parse() to get a Date object, which has the necessary methods for getting year, month and day.
If you already have the Date object, as in your example, you can get year, month and day, without a DateFormat, directly from the Date object.

- mfg

> dear deviprasad mundluru

> thanx fer the advise. the jscript works fine!!

> for JAVA however, my fren proposed that i use the SimpleDateFormat. it's kinda sloppy. ehe. but it gets the job done.

> SimpleDateFormat dateFmt =
> new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
>
> TimeZone mst = TimeZone.getTimeZone("CTT");
> dateFmt.setTimeZone(mst);
> String dateString = dateFmt.format(new java.util.Date());
>
> but to get the exact field of day, month and year.. depends
> on how we define the format.

> year = Integer.parseInt(dateString.substring(2,4))+100;
> month = Integer.parseInt(dateString.substring(5,7))-1;
> day = Integer.parseInt(dateString.substring(8,10));

• Sorry,how to get year from Date obj Frank December 27, 2001 at 9:01 PM (0)
• tried master Matt's suggestions. alex November 07, 2001 at 11:14 PM (1)
  • date synchronization problem Matt Gerrans November 08, 2001 at 10:19 PM (0)
• i think i got it2 alex November 07, 2001 at 10:15 PM (0)