new Date("05-MAY-09 03.55.50") is any thing wrong with this ? i am getting illegalArgumentException

Question

new Date("05-MAY-09 03.55.50")

is any thing wrong with this ? i am getting illegalArgumentException

Answer 1

Use colons to separate hours, minutes and seconds: "05-MAY-09 03:55:50"

Answer 2

That constructor is deprecated (since jdk 1.1).

It not even valid in java5

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/sql/Date.html

You should

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT);
Date date = sdf.parse("05-MAY-09 03:55:50");

Answer 3

That Date constructor is deprecated for a reason.

You should be using a DateFormat / SimpleDateFormat instead to create Date instances from a String representation.

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy hh.mm.ss");
Date myDate = df.parse("05-05-MAY-09 03.55.50");

This way, you can parse dates that are in just about any format you could conceivably want.

Answer 4

Other than the fact that you are using a deprecated method (you should be using SimpleDateFormat instead), this should work:

    new Date("05-MAY-09 03:55:50");

Also check out Joda Time

Answer 5

Don't use this method, as it has been deprecated for years (and years). Use DateFormat.parse() in which you can easily define the format you want to parse.