Facing Problem in parsing a string to date

Question

Hi,
I was trying to change a string into date with date format ("EEEE,MMM,d,h:mm") but I always get the year as 1970.
here is my code
String strDate="Saturday,Jan 19 7:31";
String dateFormat3="EEEE,MMM,d,h:mm";
     try {
     DateFormat myDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat3);
     result1=myDateFormat.parse(strDate);
catch(ParseException pe) {
            System.out.println("ERROR: could not parse date in string \"" +
        }any solution for it.

Answer 1

This is my actual code
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;
public class TestingDate {
      * @param args
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub
          String dateFormat="EEEE, MMM d h:mm a";
          Date test=new Date(2007,0,19, 19, 31);
          System.out.println(" original date is "+test);
          String stringResult=DateToString(test,dateFormat);
          System.out.println("Date to string is "+stringResult);
          Date dateResult=stringToDate(stringResult,dateFormat);
          System.out.println(" String to date is "+dateResult);
          String stringResult2=DateToString(dateResult,dateFormat);
          System.out.println(" Date to string  is "+stringResult2);
public static String DateToString(Date test, String dateFormat) {
         String result = null;
         try {
              DateFormat myDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat);
                 result = myDateFormat.format(test);
                 //System.out.println(" reslut date is "+result);
          } catch (Exception e) {
               System.out.println(" Exception is "+e);
          return result;
public static Date stringToDate(String strDate,String dateFormat1){
     Date result1=null;
     try {
          DateFormat myDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat1);
          result1=myDateFormat.parse(strDate);
     catch(Exception e){
          System.out.println(" exception is "+e);
     return result1;
}I am facing problem in getting the actual date. Please suggest the solution.