Converting string to util date

I have a method to define if a string value can be converted into date.
When I pass "20080815" value as a parameter it works fine. But when I pass "20082415" value it also converts the value to a date where the value should not be converted to date. At least I expect so. It should throw an exception because month can not be 24.
Why an how could it be? And is there another way to solve the situation?
    public static int ToDate(String p_value) {
        try {
            DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
            date_val = df.parse(p_value);
            return 1;
        catch(Exception e) {
            return -1;
    }Edited by: kalyon on Sep 4, 2008 3:50 AM
Edited by: kalyon on Sep 4, 2008 3:50 AM

df.setLenient(false);read the API docs.

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