Can I change Calendar type to Date type?

Question

Hi Gentlemen,
Here is the scenario.
A user enters a date as string.
I pass that string to a class named DateStamp
where I get this string say [s]
and parse it,then I create a date object.
here is the code for it.
public Date setThisDate(String s) {
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/mm/dd");
Date d=null;
try{
d = format.parse(s);
}catch(ParseException pe) {
pe.printStackTrace();
//Calendar date = new GregorianCalendar();
//date.setTime(d);
System.err.println(d.toString());
return d;
the error I got is,
Unparseable date
can some one guide me please.

Answer 1

Your program is trying (and failing) to convert a String to a Date. So why do you keep asking how to convert a Calendar to a Date? That's not your problem. Your problem is that your SimpleDateFormat expects to be given a String containing a 4-digit year field, a slash (or dash), a 2-digit minute field, a slash (or dash), and a 2-digit day field. That doesn't make any sense, and that's why you get the error. It would work better if you specified a month field instead of a minute field:
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");