Problems using SimpleDateFormat

Question

Apparently, I\'m missing something fundamental. I\'m having a problem with formatting the value of a jspinner. I\'ve tried a couple different ways and keep receiving an error, d

Answer 1

I suspect the problem is this:

dateFrom.getValue().toString()

I suspect dateFrom.getValue() is just returning a Date - which of course doesn't have any associated format. Instead of parsing that, you should just cast it:

Date from = (Date) dateFrom.getValue();

I could be wrong, of course... but that would be my first thought.