Date Conversion from String to sql Date in Java giving different output? [duplicate]

Question

I have a string form of Date. I have to change it to Sql Date. so for that i have used the following code.

String startDate="01-02-2013"; SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-mm-yyyy"); java.util.Date date = sdf1.parse(startDate); java.sql.Date sqlStartDate = new java.sql.Date(date.getTime());   

when i used the above code and run that. I got the following output.

2013-01-01.   

Here Month is not converted correctly.
Please tell me where is the problem and provide sample code to get correct result?

Answer 1

mm is minutes. You want MM for months:

SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy"); 

Don't feel bad - this exact mistake comes up a lot.