01.01.0000 date parse and format

Question

Could somebody explain is wrong here?
SimpleDateFormat frm = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");  // formatter
frm.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));   // UTC time zone
// --- No problem for the next code ---
String inDate = "19700101000000";  // 01.01.1970 input date
long stamp;
try {
    stamp = frm.parse(inDate).getTime();   // input date in long
} catch (ParseException ex) {
    System.out.println("Interruption");
    stamp = 0;
String outDate = frm.format(stamp);  // output date
System.out.println("inDate=>" + inDate + "_longDate=>" + stamp + "_outDate=>" + outDate);
// --- No idea why next code is working wrongly ---
inDate = "00000101000000";  // 01.01.0000 input date
try {
    stamp = frm.parse(inDate).getTime();   // input date in long
} catch (ParseException ex) {
    System.out.println("Interruption");
    stamp = 0;
outDate = frm.format(stamp);  // output date
System.out.println("inDate=>" + inDate + "_longDate=>" + stamp + "_outDate=>" + outDate);I try to parse and format the time stamp 01.01.0000 00:00:00. On the finish I have 01.01.0001 instead of the correct 01.01.0000
inDate=>19700101000000_longDate=>0_outDate=>19700101000000
inDate=>00000101000000_longDate=>-62167392000000_outDate=>00010101000000

Answer 1

You are calling format with a long parameter. The only format that matches that signature that I can see would be Format.format(Object) assuming autoboxing is changing the long to a Long.
Format.format(Object) eventually calls DateFormat.format(Object, StringBuffer, FieldPosition). I have never used this method so I am not sure what it does.
Was your intention to actually call this method?
See the following example:
System.out.println("Test 1: " + frm.format(new Long(0l), new StringBuffer(), new FieldPosition(0)));  
System.out.println("Test 2: " + frm.format(new Long(-62167392000000l), new StringBuffer(), new FieldPosition(0)));  
Test 1: 19700101000000
Test 2: 00010101000000Edited by: jbish on Apr 26, 2013 12:43 PM
Edited by: jbish on Apr 26, 2013 1:09 PM