Calendar misbehaviour...

Hi there,
I try to parse some input from HTML form with
SimpleDateFormat dateFormatTime("HH:mm");
Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
cal.setTimeInMillis(0);
cal.setTime(dateFormatTime.parse(timeString));
toReturn.setTime(new Timestamp(cal.getTimeInMillis()));The point is, that getTimeInMillis() is returning 0 if timeString contains only minutes (like "00:20") while cal.getTime().toString returns properly "Thu Jan 01 00:10:00 CET 1970".
Why is it so? How can I initialize that Timestamp with such a string if this approach does not work?
TIA

This question is not related to native methods,. however....
It is a matter of timezone you are using (CET), with offset of 1hour from UTC/GMT one. Call to getTimeInMillis() will return UNIX milliseconds (calculated from 1/1/70 0:00 GMT), while Date.toString() used your local timezone.

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