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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 13:34:16 -0600
From: Jack Barnard <###@###.###>
Organization: Lucent Technologies
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Subject: Year 2000 (Y2K) problem
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Hi,

The SimpleDateFormat in JDK1.1 does not support year 2000.
When I enter 1/1/00 it gives me 01-Jan-1900 back!
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Jack Barnard
Lucent Technologies
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(303)538-3976

this seemed a little odd but the following program exhibits the
behaviour:

class dateyy {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
                SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat ("yy.mm.dd");
             
ParsePosition pos = new ParsePosition(0);
                Date currentTime_2 = formatter.parse("00.1.1", pos);

                formatter = new SimpleDateFormat ("yyyy.mm.dd");
                String datestring = formatter.format(currentTime_2);

                System.out.println(datestring);
        }
}

which gives

1900.1.1

maybe it shouldn't default to 1900 but give back 0000.1.1 I don't
know what this would break.

The provided testcase is not completed. Missing import statement. Need to addimport java.text.*; verify at jdk116e, fixed