23/12/2013 is mapping with MM/dd/yyyy format why, why not ParseException

Question

Can anybody help?

public void dateCalender() throws ParseException{
        System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat(\"MM/dd/yyyy\", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(\"120/1         


        

Answer 1

On the first two:

MM/dd/yyyy 120/12/2013

The compiler will take this as '12/12/2013 + 118 months' and essentially solve for the correct date. In your example, it comes out as December 12, 2022 (12/12/2013 + 9 years).

MM/dd/yyyy 23/12/2013

The exact same thing happens. You get '12/12/2013 + 9 months', or 11/12/2014.

The third one isn't technically in the MM/dd/yyyy format. As from the other answers, you can do something like this:

SystemDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
sdf.setLenient(true);
sdf.parse("Jan/12/2013");
System.out.println(sdf.toString());