Question

I have written following program to convert date string to sql date object to store in db2 but the ouput shown is 2013-01-02 instead of 2013-02-02. can anyone explain why??

String string = "02/02/2013";
Date date = null;

try {
    date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/mm/yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(string);
    java.sql.Date newDate=new java.sql.Date(date.getTime());
    System.out.println(newDate);

} catch (ParseException e) {                    
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 1

For month you should use MM instead of mm. mm is used for minutes in hour: –

date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH)