java string date conversion

Question

I want to convert a string to date before storing it and I used

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(\"yyyy-mm-dd\");
Date returnDate = format.parse(d         


        

Answer 1

In your DateFormat use MM for month instead of mm, that is for minutes

Reference: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html