Name: bsC130419 Date: 05/18/2001


D:\users\work>java -version
java version "1.3.0_01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0_01)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0_01, mixed mode)

This happens also with versio 1.2.2 in Solaris...


SimpleDateFormat.parse throws an exception. It should either return null or
parse the date.

Following code:

import java.util.*;
import java.text.*; //DateFormat, ParsePosition,...

class Tester{
  public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception{
    try{
      Date d=new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yy HH:mm:ss z", Locale.US).parse
("Fri, 09 Feb 2001 07:16:01 GMT+2",new ParsePosition(0));
  System.out.println("1: "+d);
    }catch(Exception e){
  System.out.println("1: "+e);
    }

    try{
      Date d=new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yy HH:mm:ss z", Locale.US).parse
("Fri, 09 Feb 2001 07:16:01 GMT+0200",new ParsePosition(0));
  System.out.println("2: "+d);
    }catch(Exception e){
  System.out.println("2: "+e);
    }

    try{
      Date d=new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yy HH:mm:ss z", Locale.US).parse
("Fri, 09 Feb 2001 07:16:01 GMT+02:00",new ParsePosition(0));
  System.out.println("3: "+d);
    }catch(Exception e){
  System.out.println("3: "+e);
    }
  }
}

Produces following result:

D:\users\work>java -cp . Tester
1: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 31
2: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 34
3: Fri Feb 09 07:16:01 GMT+02:00 2001
(Review ID: 124611)
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