Question

I am doing the following

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(“MM-dd-yyyy”);
calendar.setTime(formatter.parse(“01/26/2012”);

When I do

calendar.getTime()

I see

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: “01/26/2012”

What is am I doing wrong?

Thank you

Answer 1

Erm, you give the pattern

MM-dd-yyyy

to SimpleDateFormat then offer it

01/26/2012

to parse. That’s not the format you specified, and it’s telling you it can’t parse it.

You would need:

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");