Wrong date shown

Question

i have this code :
public static void main(String[] args) {
Date today = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat formatter;
String myDate;
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("ddmmyyyy", Locale.US);
myDate = formatter.format(today);
System.out.print(myDate);
I was hoping it would give me 17102006 as that is the current date when I ran the code. But I got 17232006 from the stdout.
I'd check my computer date and timezone setting, all fine.
Is there something wrong with the code ?
Note : I got the wrong result ( but with different value ) when I ran the code under Windows. I'm currently using Debian GNU/Linux with jdk 1.5 update 01.
Thanks

Answer 1

It's:formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMyyyy", Locale.US);(look at the MM (month) instead of mm (minutes)).
Next time please paste your code between [code] [/code] tags with the help of the code button just above the message box.
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