More date problems: Missing time and timezones

Question

I looked over the board for any past advice, but couldn't find anything directly relating to this. Then, it maybe my poor ability to search properly. So, I'll appologise in advance.....
I'm changing the value of a date, using a class I wrote. When I do so, the date returned seems to be timeless. On top of that, if I try to format it with a timezone 'z', I get the exception:
Unparseable date: "2/6/2003 9:59:17"
Here's the code I'm using:
//My date class snippits.
public void setValue(String inDate) throws ParseException, Throwable
TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"+getTimeZone());
//Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(tz);
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss z");
sdf.setLenient(true);
sdf.setTimeZone(tz);
theDate.setTime(sdf.parse(inDate).getTime());
isNull = false;
public void setNull()
theDate = null;
isNull = true;
public Timestamp getValue()
return theDate;
// Code for when I retreve the value
Timestamp timestamp = ((theDateClass)theResult).getValue();
DATE theDate = new DATE(timestamp.toString());
Any ideas or help is much appreciated.
Cheers.

Answer 1

I haven't been trying it out, but it looks to me your
problem could be due to an inconsistency between the
two...
yoou expect two digits for both day and month, but
provide only one.It parses the date without exception if there's no timezone on the end of the format. That's what's puzzling me.