Thread: Help with Date.getTime()

Hi,

I'm having a problem with this method and I can't see what I'm doing wrong

import java.util.Date;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
 
public class Main {
 
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
 
    DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss");
    String start = "19-09-2011  08:00:00";
    String end = "19-09-2011  12:00:00";
 
    Date d = format.parse(start);
    System.out.println(d.getTime());
    d = format.parse(end);
    System.out.println(d.getTime());
    }
}

When I use that code, I get that end < start but only if end is set at 12:00:00. For example, if I change the ending hour to 11:00:00 it works fine. Any ideas?

Thanks!

I changed hh:mm:ss to HH:mm:ss and it worked fine. I looked at what was the cause and it seems 'h' is used for the am/pm hour format and 'H' for the 24-hour format.

Thanks newbie.