Using GregorianCalendar with SimpleDateFormat

Question

So, I\'ve been racking my brain over this (should-be) simple exercise to make the program turn a date string into a GregorianCalendar object, format it, and ret

Answer 1

Why such complications?

public static GregorianCalendar convertFromDMY(String dd_mm_yy) throws ParseException 
{
    SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
    Date date = fmt.parse(dd_mm_yy);
    GregorianCalendar cal = GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
    cal.setTime(date);
    return cal;
}