Bug with date parsing

Question

import java.util.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
public class DateUtils3 {
public static void main(String arg[]) {
     try{
     SimpleDateFormat sdf = null;
                         Date date = null;
                              sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
                              sdf.setLenient(Boolean.FALSE.booleanValue());
                              date = sdf.parse("20100314021602");
                         System.out.println(date);
}catch(Exception e){
     System.out.println(e);
I get this error java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "20100314021602"
But if you change the date to be 2009 or change it to march 13 or 15 or anything else , it works!!!

Answer 1

sabre150 wrote:
DrClap wrote:
Yes, that's right. I didn't have a 2:16 in the morning on March 14 where I live either. The clock went straight from 2 AM to 3 AM and skipped all the times in between.Interesting. We (in the UK) usually change the clocks on the last weekend of March so the 14th would be far too early for us.Yeah, the Americans made us change a couple of years ago so they could save a ton of energy. Or so they said, I haven't seen the review which determines how much energy was actually saved. I prefer the theory that the change was made so that people would have 3 extra weeks per year to go golfing after work.