Help: ResulSet.getDate(int col) rounds time to 12:00AM

Question

Using Microsoft SQL Server 7, I execute the following code:
CREATE TABLE Test (RegDate DATETIME, SmallDate SMALLDATETIME)
INSERT INTO Test (RegDate, SmallDate) VALUES ('1/1/2000 5:37 AM', '1/1/2000 5:37 AM')
SELECT * FROM TestThis is the output that I get back:RegDate                     SmallDate                  
2000-01-01 05:37:00.000     2000-01-01 05:37:00Ok, it looks good so far... now let me query this table with JDBC://just a snippet... I already have a connection, and a statement (stmt)
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("M/dd/yyyy h:mm:ss a");
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM Test");
while(rs.next()) {
    System.out.println("RegDate is " + format.format(rs.getDate(1)));
    System.out.println("SmallDate is " + format.format(rs.getDate(2)));
}The output from the java code is:RegDate is 1/1/2000 12:00 AM
SmallDate is 1/1/2000 12:00 AMThe month, day and year are correct but the hours and minutes are 12:00 AM. How can I get the hours and minutes?
Thanks,
jay

Answer 1

Okay, I did some reading and I learned that java.sql.Date will always show 12:00 AM (aka zero). There is a class called java.sql.Time which should take care of the time.
I still don't know how to get the Date and time from a ResultSet though. I can call ResultSet.getDate(int col) or ResultSet.getTime(int col) but not both (after getting a column's value, subsequent calls return null). I even tried getting raw data and parsing it via ResultSet.getBytes() and ResutSet.getBinaryStream()... common sense tells me that there's got to be a cleaner, simpler way to do this. Surely I'm not the first person who wanted to read the date and time from a SQLServer DATETIME column!
thanks again