Convert Java String to sql.Timestamp

Question

Got a String coming in with this format: YYYY-MM-DD-HH.MM.SS.NNNNNN The Timestamp is coming from a DB2 database. I need to parse it into a java.sql.Timestamp and NOT lose a

Answer 1

Here's the intended way to convert a String to a Date:

String timestamp = "2011-10-02-18.48.05.123";
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd-kk.mm.ss.SSS");
Date parsedDate = df.parse(timestamp);

Admittedly, it only has millisecond resolution, but in all services slower than Twitter, that's all you'll need, especially since most machines don't even track down to the actual nanoseconds.