java.util.Date is generating a wrong date?

Question

Here\'s my code:

java.util.Date TODAY = new java.util.Date();     
SimpleDateFormat SDF = new SimpleDateFormat( \"YYYY-MM-DD\" );
System.out.println ( SDF.fo         


        

Answer 1

When format for SimpleDateFormat is specified as follows:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-DD");

• the YYYY - means week year,
• the MM - means month,
• the DD - means day in year.

Week year here is not what you wanted. See what is week year.

Your today's date is 2015-02-02, which means that it is 32 days since the beginning of the year 2015 passed and your are on the 33 day. That is why you get date "2015-02-33".

To mean year (and not week year) and day in month change format to SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");