Can't Check For Invalid Date

Question

Why does the following code not detect that the date (i.e. the month) is invalid?
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.util.Date;
public class dateCompare
     public static void main(String[] args)
          String startDateString = "15/22/2002";
          try
               SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
               sdf.parse(startDateString);
          catch (ParseException e)
               e.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 1

I modified your code like this:
Date date = sdf.parse(startDateString);
System.out.println(date);And this is the output it produced:
Sat Mar 22 00:00:00 PST 2003
So, it looks like it's taking the 15, assuming you mean 12 + 3 months, and applying that to the year --- thus, it becomes March 2003.