Question

Im writing a program that needs to be able to find the difference between two dates using java.util.date format. I’m using the SimpleDateFormat class to parse the string input but it seems to be parsing wrong. Here is my code. I appreciate any help

SimpleDateFormat s = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/mm/dd");
Date startDate = s.parse(dateField.getText()); //input is 2012/03/10
System.out.println(START_DATE);//output is Tue Jan 10 00:03:00 MST 2012      

Answer 1

You must use yyyy/MM/dd instead of yyyy/mm/dd. Because mm is for minutes and MM is for month