Question

I’m getting the error

java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.Date
at avb.Test.main(Test.java:38)
SimpleDateFormat(“yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS”)

from the code

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
String tmp = "2012-03-16 18:58:14.0";
Date MaxCmTimerUpdate = (Date)df.parse(tmp);

What am I doing wrong? How do I fix it?

Answer 1

My guess is that you’ve got an import for java.sql.Date (or some other Date type), whereas SimpleDateFormat parses to a java.util.Date. You shouldn’t need the cast at all.

You won’t be able to cast to a different Date type – if you need to create a java.sql.Date, you’ll have to create a new one based on the java.util.Date, e.g.

Date timerUpdate = new Date(df.parse(tmp).getTime());