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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:43:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Garner <peter_garner@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: ResultSet.getDate
To: Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
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Hi Peter! ;-)

>I'll check, but what version of the JDK/JRE are you
>using? The java.util.Date class was broken in pre
>jdk1.1.6 VM's.

I am using the JDK 1.1.7v1a from Blackdown.  Indeed,
Java's handling of dates is a little funky.  But in 
this case the problem is that the returned strings
are not being handled properly.  Calling getString
instead of getDate returns :

"Mon Feb 01 16:08:00 1999 UTC"

And the format string used in the SimpleDateFormatter
object that getDate uses to convert that string is
not correct for that format.  If there is anything I
can do to help, please let me know! :-)
==
Peace,
Peter

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