Strange problem with SimpleDateFormat.parse method

Question

I got something strange with this method.
String pattern = "yyyy/MM/dd";
String mydate = "2007/00/10";
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
Date newdate = formatter.parse(mydate);
I get "2006/12/10"
is this correct.

Answer 1

dongyisu wrote:
and there no exception get thrown outYes it does. I ran this:
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class DateFormatTest
   public static final String DEFAULT_DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy/MM/dd";
   public static void main(String[] args)
      DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(DEFAULT_DATE_FORMAT);
      formatter.setLenient(false);
      for (int i = 0; i < args.length; ++i)
         try
            Date date = formatter.parse(args);
System.out.println("input: " + args[i] + " date: " + date);
catch (ParseException e)
System.err.println(args[i] + " is not a valid date");
and got this when I input "2007/00/10":
com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain DateFormatTest 2007/00/10
2007/00/10 is not a valid date
Process finished with exit code 0%