Date conversion not working correctly

Question

I have the following code:

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(SQL_SERVER_DATE_FORMAT);
Date startDate;

startDate = (Date) dateFormat.parse(some_string_represents_date_received_from_sql_server);

where SQL_SERVER_DATE_FORMAT is:

public static final String SQL_SERVER_DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy-mm-dd'T'HH:mm:ss";

For some reason when some_string_represents_date_received_from_sql_server = '2014-02-05T12:15:59.417' I get this wrongly converted to 1388916959000 ticks which mean Sun Jan 05 12:15:59 GMT+02:00 2014 .

and when I have some_string_represents_date_received_from_sql_server = '2014-01-30T16:30:00.437' I get this correctly converted to 1391092200000 ticks which mean Thu Jan 30 16:30:00 GMT+02:00 2014 .

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try DateFormat for parsing as public static final String SQL_SERVER_DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"; instead of public static final String SQL_SERVER_DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy-mm-dd'T'HH:mm:ss";

Answer 2

In your date format you're specifying minutes (mm) instead of months (MM).