SimpleDateFormat ignoring month when parsing

Question

The following code is giving me the parsed date as "Wed Jan 13 00:00:00 EST 2010" instead of "Wed Jun 13 00:00:00 EST 2010". Any ideas much appreciated.

    SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");

    String str = "2010-06-13T00:00:00";

    Date date = sf.parse(str);

    System.out.println(" Date " + date.toString());

Answer 1

Try:

"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"

MM means month. mm means minutes. See the documentation for SimpleDateFormat for more details of the supported date and time patterns.

Answer 2

The problem is that you're using 'mm' as month and 'mm' represents minutes. Below is all date formats available, read more doc here.

Symbol  Meaning                Kind         Example
D       day in year             Number        189
E       day of week             Text          E/EE/EEE:Tue, EEEE:Tuesday, EEEEE:T
F       day of week in month    Number        2 (2nd Wed in July)
G       era designator          Text          AD
H       hour in day (0-23)      Number        0
K       hour in am/pm (0-11)    Number        0
L       stand-alone month       Text          L:1 LL:01 LLL:Jan LLLL:January LLLLL:J
M       month in year           Text          M:1 MM:01 MMM:Jan MMMM:January MMMMM:J
S       fractional seconds      Number        978
W       week in month           Number        2
Z       time zone (RFC 822)     Time Zone     Z/ZZ/ZZZ:-0800 ZZZZ:GMT-08:00 ZZZZZ:-08:00
a       am/pm marker            Text          PM
c       stand-alone day of week Text          c/cc/ccc:Tue, cccc:Tuesday, ccccc:T
d       day in month            Number        10
h       hour in am/pm (1-12)    Number        12
k       hour in day (1-24)      Number        24
m       minute in hour          Number        30
s       second in minute        Number        55
w       week in year            Number        27
G       era designator          Text          AD
y       year                    Number        yy:10 y/yyy/yyyy:2010
z       time zone               Time Zone     z/zz/zzz:PST zzzz:Pacific Standard