User Name: David J. Miller
Email: ###@###.###
Platform: Solaris SPARC
JWS Version: Java WorkShop 2.0 Pre-Beta
Java Version: JDK1.1.1/jws:05/05/97
Serial Number: JWS100-DAASSU-912858473

I just downloaded build 93 and there appears to be a new bug in the
SimpleDateFormat class' parse/subParse methods.
I get a Null Pointer exception whenever I pass
in a time string containing two zeros (00) in at least one of the time
fields. If I replace the 00 with something else like 01, then it works.
This problem did not exist in my previous version of Workshop.

Here is a sample of the code, followed by the exception messages:

private SimpleDateFormat timeFormatter;
timeFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
timeFormatter.setLenient(false);

  public boolean correctTimeFormat(String timestring)
  {
    try
{
System.err.println(timestring);
Date date = timeFormatter.parse(timestring);
return true;
}
    catch (ParseException parsee)
{
return false;
}
  }
    
10:03:07
13:45:01
13:50:00
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.subParse(Compiled Code)
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.parse(Compiled Code)
at java.text.DateFormat.parse(Compiled Code)
at CPSupport.CPExecutionState.correctTimeFormat(Compiled Code)
at Schedule.CPScheduleHandler.processHeaderDirectiveArgs(Compiled Code)
at Schedule.CPScheduleHandler.processBeginops(Compiled Code)
at Schedule.CPScheduleHandler.processDirective(Compiled Code)
at Schedule.CPScheduleHandler.processSchedule(Compiled Code)
at Schedule.CPScheduleHandler.<init>(Compiled Code)
at CPThread.run(Compiled Code)

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This is reproducable.

sfoster@eng 1997-05-29