I just read the same thing somewhere else now. Always thought it was a good idea to re-use it, but I guess it's not.
Thanks for the info!! I will implement the changes and see how things go. On 26 January 2011 15:41, Bruce Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jason, the SimpleDateFormat class is not thread safe. If you were not > aware of this you may have multiple threads accessing the the dateFormat > instance, and this is exactly the sort of error that can occur. > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Jason Purcell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi there... >> >> I am getting intermittent exceptions when parsing dates. >> >> My formatter is declared as follows: >> >> SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); >> dateFormat.setLenient(false); >> >> These are some of the exceptions that have been thrown: >> >> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "02/04/1980" >> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "20/06/1985" >> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "05/03/1990" >> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "14/09/1973" >> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "25/01/2011" >> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "25/01/2011" >> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "09/07/1965" >> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "07/10/1974" >> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "27/08/1966" >> >> My unit tests pass when using the "unparseable" dates above, and in >> production dates parse correctly basically 99.999% of the time in the >> relevant piece of code. >> >> As an example, the following dates parse correctly: >> >> 07/06/1978 >> 14/06/1981 >> 04/01/1988 >> 03/10/1965 >> 12/09/1977 >> 30/01/1985 >> >> Has anyone come across this before? >> >> Is there a problem with using SimpleDateFormat.setLenient() perhaps? >> >> Regards, >> Jason. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CTJUG Tech" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<ctjug-tech%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en >> For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ >> For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/ >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CTJUG Tech" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<ctjug-tech%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en > For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ > For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Tech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/
