Question

Doesn’t meter what string I pass to parse I’m always getting Illegal Argument exception on GWT DateTimeFormat.parse method.

For instance, what is wrong on the following code line:?

Date date = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("MM-dd-YYYY").parse("10-10-2012");

I get:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 10-10-2012
    at com.google.gwt.i18n.shared.DateTimeFormat.parse

Answer 1

Instead of YYYY for the year in the format, you should use yyyy. The format you are specifiying would match a date that looks like: 10-10-YYYY (since Y isn’t a special date format character).