Need info on SimpleDateFormat, Converting String to Date

Question

I'm a newbie and doing a conversion of a string to a date and it's adding a little less than 11 minutes. I know I'm missing something really simple but as I read it I ought to be able to convert "20030125 084539.637696" to Sat Jan 25 08:45:39 not 8:56! Also, for the time being I'm ignoring the zulu 'Z' because I can't find a pattern that'll take it.
System.out.println("INFO:MetadataExtractorBean::filestarttime:" + filestarttime);
filestarttime = filestarttime.replace("Z","");
System.out.println("after filestarttime.replace(Z,null) filestarttime:" + filestarttime);
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd hhmmss.SSSSSS");
Date convertedDate = dateFormat.parse(filestarttime);
System.out.println("after dateFormat.parse(filestarttime) convertedDate:" + convertedDate);
INFO:MetadataExtractorBean::filestarttime:20030125 084539.637696Z
after filestarttime.replace(Z,null) filestarttime:20030125 084539.637696
after dateFormat.parse(filestarttime) convertedDate:Sat Jan 25 08:56:16 EST 2003
Can someone help me with a) why it doesn't remain 8:45, and b) how to modify the pattern to be able to parse a zulu date. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

import java.text.*;
public class ParsingExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
        String s = "20030125 084539.637";
        SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd HHmmss.SSS");
        System.out.println(f.parse(s));
}Your round up was because ".637696" was taken to mean 637,696 milliseconds. SimpleDateFormat doesn't have a way to accept microseconds, and anyway, java.util.Date only has millisecond precision. I also changed "hh" to "HH" because I assume this is with a 24 hour clock.
edit: you can tell your date format not to do these roll ups by setting:
f.setLenient(false);