SimpleDateFormat always parses 2 digit dates relative to 1900. This means a date like 5/4/02 would be May 4 1902 rather than May 4, 2002. This is not likely to be what the user wants.

<jimholl 11/10/97>
I ran some tests against jdk1.1.4:

10/15/99 parsed to: Fri Oct 15 00:00:00 PDT 1999
10/15/00 parsed to: Sun Oct 15 00:00:00 PDT 2000
10/15/17 parsed to: Sun Oct 15 00:00:00 PDT 2017
10/15/18 parsed to: Tue Oct 15 00:00:00 PDT 1918
10/15/68 parsed to: Tue Oct 15 00:00:00 PDT 1968
10/15/69 parsed to: Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 PDT 1969

The fourth and fifth results fail to comply with the SunSoft y2000
requirements. It seems that 2017/1918 is used as the cut-off for
2-digit dates when 2038/1939 is required.

What is the policy in use? Can it change?

john.evans@Eng 1997-11-11
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Actually, the Y2000 compliance dates are as follows:
00-68 --> 20xx
69-99 --> 19xx