Inconsistent date parsing using SimpleDateFormat

Question

I\'m really scratching my head on this one. I\'ve been using SimpleDateFormats with no troubles for a while, but now, using a SimpleDateFormat to parse dates is

Answer 1

I think you want to use the HH format, rather than 'hh' so that you are using hours between 00-23. 'hh' takes the format in 12 hour increments, and so it assumes it is in the AM.

So this

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date date = sdf.parse("2009-08-19 12:00:00");
System.out.print(date.toString());

Should print out

Wed Aug 19 12:00:00 EDT 2009