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Date Formatting

Posted by Ivor Evans on November 02, 2000 at 4:30 AM

I am having trouble formatting dates that i am retrieving from a database.

The date is coming out of the database in this format:
2000-10-27 12:00:00.000

My code to format this looks like this

Locale loc = Locale.US;
Date docDate;

DateFormat dateformat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss:SSS", loc);

try {
documentDate = ((String)((Vector)docDetails.elementAt(0)).elementAt(1)).trim();
System.out.println("Document Date " + documentDate);
// which is 2000-10-27 12:00:00.000
docDate = dateformat.parse(documentDate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
docDate = new Date();
System.out.println("An error has occurred trying to parse the date");
}
dateformat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
//I then go on to format the date in this format

I am always getting an error and I am not sure why - My understanding of how it should work is obviously off the mark.

Ant helpo whatsoever is appreciated

Thanks

Ivor

• A very simple mistake Kishori Sharan November 02, 2000 at 10:38 AM (1)
  • Thanks for that Ivor Evans November 07, 2000 at 3:34 AM (0)