Regarding a date format

Question

Dear All,
I have a doubt regarding date formats.
i have a date = Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 GMT+300 2009
i want to convert this date in to 24.06.2009
What i tried is
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss Z yyyy");
Date convertedDate = dateFormat.parse(value);
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy");
String date = sdf.format(convertedDate);
System.out.println(date);But my output was 24.06.0300Some thing happened to my Year field .
Please help me to solve this ....
Thanks and Regards,

Answer 1

shashi_rajak wrote:
"Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 GMT+300 2009" definetely it is not in "General time zone" and "RFC 822 time zone format". But the [SimpleDateFormat api|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html] tell this also
SimpleDateFormat also supports localized date and time pattern strings. In these strings, the pattern letters described above may be replaced with other, locale dependent, pattern letters. SimpleDateFormat does not deal with the localization of text other than the pattern letters; that's up to the client of the class.
That's not saying anything about changing what the various bits do, though. It's just saying that a particular Locale might use a different letter sequence to represent hours..."XX" instead of "HH", for example. But the Locale equivalent of "z" would still expect the format "GMT+3:00".
hey sha_2008 can you tell what values these methods " toLocalizedPattern()" and " toPattern()" returns on SimpleDateFormat object which created the "Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 GMT+300 2009" string.The OP hasn't mentioned anything about how he got the original date string, so we can't assume it came from another SimpleDateFormat object. In fact, it clearly hasn't.