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reformatDate question

Hi -

Can someone comment on to what extent the reformatDate utility implements the Sun SimpleDateFormat class? It works well reformatting dates that consist of just numbers like 04/19/2011, but doesn't correctly parse Apr-19-2011. Should it? Or is this beyond the scope of the utility?

Thanks.

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timz on 04/19/2011 at 10:31 pm

The method should be able to

The method should be able to handle that. I tested an example:

startDate = "Apr-19-2011";

newDate = sutil.reformatDate(startDate, "MMM-d-y", "yyyy-MM-dd");

session.log("Reformated date is: " + newDate);

And that works in version 5.5.2.

Do you see different results?

 jason on 04/20/2011 at 8:54 am