Java.text.ParseException :UnparseableDate

Question

Hi,
Iam trying to convert a String into Date and that Date in to a customized Date format...,Here it is what iam doing..
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.text.*;
public class str2date
public static void main(String[] args)
try
String mystr="01-03-2003";
     SimpleDateFormat converttodt=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ss");
     java.util.Date mydt=converttodt.parse(mystr.trim());
     System.out.println("mydt"+mydt);
     String output=converttodt.format(mydt);
     System.out.println(output);
     catch(ParseException e)
     System.out.println(e.toString());
Error:"java.text.ParseException :UnparseableDate 01-03-2003"
Can any one help me out... URGENT...,
Thanks in Advance
Rao.

Answer 1

Well, the problem is right in front of you. You're telling it the format of the date is going to be
yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ss
and then you're giving it the date in a format of
MM-dd-yyyy
and wondering why it's not accepting it? If you want to input a date from one format and output it in another you need to create two SimpleDateFormat objects, one to parse the date from a String to a Date object, and a second (or reuse the first with a different parse string) to format the Date and output it as a String.