Having problems parsing String to Date

Hello,
Could someone please explain to me why the following code snippet parses the day and year correctly but returns the month as January regardless of which date I supply?
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("M/D/y");
try { Date date = format.parse("5/5/2000"); }
catch (ParseException e) {}
System.out.println(date.toString());
// returns --> Wed Jan 05 00:00:00 PST 2000

Refer to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
> SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("M/D/y");Capital 'D' indicates Day in year. So day 5 in your example refers to the fifth day in Jan. Use small 'd', which indicates Day in month ...
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