Why don't I get the year right using SimpleDateFormat in java?

2
votes

I trying to parse a data in a MySql Format, I ran across SimpleDateFormat. I can get the proper day and month, but I got a strange result for the year :

date = 2009-06-22;
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); 
Date d = sdf.parse(date);
System.println(date);
System.println(d.getDate());
System.println(d.getMonth());
System.println(d.getYear());

Outputs :

2009-06-22
22           OK
5            Hum... Ok, months go from 0 to 11
109          o_O WTF ?

I tried changing the format to YYYY-MM-dd (got an error) and yy-MM-dd (did nothing). I am programming on Android, don't know if it's important.

For now, I bypass that using a split, but it's dirty and prevent me from using i18n features.

2
javaandroidsimpledateformatdate-parsing

2 Answers

12
votes

The year is relative to 1900. That's a "feature" of the Date class. Try to use Calender.

5
votes

Thanks to Aaron, the right version :

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(); 
c.setTime(sdf.parse(date));
System.println(c.get(Calendar.YEAR));