Problem with SimepleDateFormat for the military pattern....

Question

i have the code, which has to display date in the military format i.e., "yyyyMMddhhmm".
java.util.Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddhhmm").parse("200709201700");
System.out.println("Expected Date : " + date);
but output displays everytime i.e., Thu Sep 20 17:00:00 IST 2007
is there any problem with the pattern???

Answer 1

By military format you mean 24 hour clock time, right? I believe "hh" in SimpleDateFormat is for 12 hour clock time and "HH" is for 2 digits of 24 hour clock time.
EDIT: Also, you're just parsing the string into a Date object. When you're printing, it'll simply use the toString() for Date, giving you an output as you see. If you want the output also to be formatted in the same way, you need to use the format() method of SimpleDateFormat with the same pattern on the Date.
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Edited by: nogoodatcoding on Oct 3, 2007 6:03 PM