SimpleDateFormat producing wrong date time when parsing "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm"

Question

I am trying to parse a String (YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm) to Date, however getting wrong date than expected.

CODE:

Date newDate = null;
String dateTime = "2013-03-18 08:30";
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm", Locale.ENGLISH);
df.setLenient(false);
try {
    newDate = df.parse(dateTime);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    throw new InvalidInputException("Invalid date input.");
}

Produces:

Sun Dec 30 08:30:00 EST 2012 (wrong)

I tried setting Lenient off but no luck.

Update

Thanks Sudhanshu for the answer, it helped me to solve the Java conversion. When I enter the returned date from the above code into the database I am getting the date correctly but the time is always 00:00.

ps.setDate(3, new java.sql.Date(app.getDate().getTime()));

Answer 1

YYYY should be yyyy-

SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm", Locale.ENGLISH);

Please check the documentation for SimpleDateFormat here
Java 6 : http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
Java 7 : http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Answer 2

Use small case Y, not caps. ie yyyy not YYYY

Check the comments here: Java Simple Date Format and other answers referenced there.

Answer 3

There are two problem.

1. Format string should be "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm".
2. Datatype to store the time is TimeStamp and not Date in database.

Correct both the things and you will be able to store and retrieve Date with time.