The following mail documents a problem with parsing
that date February 29, 2000. I get the correct result
in JDK 1.1.7 but an incorrect result in JDK 1.2.


--Guy



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Anyway, here's an example. It is supposed to fail in 1900,
but not in in 2000.


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import java.util.TimeZone;
import java.util.Date;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;


public class Bug
{
  static public void main(String[] args)
  {
    String[] testStrings = {
      "28/02/1900",
      "29/02/1900", // should result in an exception
      "28/02/2000",
      "29/02/2000",
    };
    
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
    formatter.setLenient(false);
    formatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
    for (int i = 0; i < testStrings.length; ++i) {
      System.out.println("For test string " + testStrings[i]);
      try {
        Date d = formatter.parse(testStrings[i]);
        System.out.println(" time = " + d.getTime());
        System.out.println(" result = " + d);
      }
      catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println();
        e.printStackTrace();
      }
    }
  }
}
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