datetime - Parse yyyy/mm/dd to epoch timestamp using SimpleDateFormat in java

Question

I wrote a java utility function to convert yyyy/mm/dd as follows

public static long gettimestamp(String dateString) {
  SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/mm/dd");
  Date date;
  try {
  date = df.parse(dateString);
  } catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
    return 0;
  }
  long epoch = date.getTime();
  return (epoch / 1000);
}

On passing 2014/06/12 - it gives 1389465360 (=Jan 11, 2014) which is wrong. Am I passing format in wrong way ?

Answer 1

You should uppercase the M. Lowercase m stands for minutes, while uppercase stands for month. Here's the documentation.