[jdjlist] RE: Using SimpleDateFormat

[Greg Nudelman]

So, SimpleDateFormat is actually quite complicated.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Gibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:31 AM
To: JDJList
Subject: [jdjlist] RE: Using SimpleDateFormat

The SimpleDateFormat, and its underlying methods are not threadsafe.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kamyar Varzandeh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:35 AM
To: JDJList
Subject: [jdjlist] Using SimpleDateFormat

Hi:

Are there any issues with using SimpleDateFormat as a static instance variable and then using it in all the methods as in

public class DateUtil {

public static final String MMDDYYYYFormat = "MM/dd/yyyy";

public static final SimpleDateFormat sdf_MMDDYYYY = new SimpleDateFormat(MMDDYYYYFormat);

public static Date toDate(String dateStr) throws ParseException {

return sdf_MMDDYYYY.parse(dateStr);

}

We have started getting NumberFormatException when invalid data is passed in.  We did not get such exceptions before when we had defined the formatter inside the method. Any ideas?

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