Best way to handle dates possible having single or double digits for month/days

Asked Mar 22 '12 at 03:24

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What's the best way to handle dates with days/months possibly having a single or double digits?

I have the following DateFormat:

yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS

and the application I'm handling is doing well until one day it broke because it received a date like this:

2012-03-5 00:00:00.001 (Notice the single digit day).

Do I really have to do some tweaking to the date string prior? Or is there any other neater way?

Thanks.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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asked Mar 22 '12 at 03:24

amor214

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Have you tried yyyy-M-d HH:mm:ss.SSS? – Chetter Hummin Mar 22 '12 at 03:29
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your format error is because the input is `00:00:00:001` while your pattern is `HH:mm:ss.SSS`, – Rangi Lin Mar 22 '12 at 03:35
@Amit, yes i have tried yyyy-M-d HH:mm:ss.SSS but it still won't work. – amor214 Mar 22 '12 at 03:39
@Rangi, oh yes, just a typo. I'm very sorry. I have edited it now. – amor214 Mar 22 '12 at 03:40
Can you show us the code you used for parsing date string ? – Rangi Lin Mar 22 '12 at 03:49
Hi @Rangi, it goes something like: `foo.setValue(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-M-d HH:mm:ss.SSS").parse("2012-03-5 00:00:00.001"));` – amor214 Mar 22 '12 at 03:54
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What error you are getting ? this code works for me. – Rangi Lin Mar 22 '12 at 04:01
@Rangi, my fault. the error was somewhere else. isolated the code and yes, it works. really my fault. thank you guys for your great help. – amor214 Mar 22 '12 at 04:06

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