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Re: java.util.Date mess
From: |
Ka-Hing Cheung |
Subject: |
Re: java.util.Date mess |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:26:04 -0700 |
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 15:39 +0200, Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some code that depends on unspecified behavior of java.util.Date.
> In the Sun JDK if you pass out of range parameters to the Date
> constructors that take year, month, date, etc. it will automatically
> convert to a valid date (for example, new Date(104, 8, 41) is Oct 11,
> 2004.)
Is that unspecified? The javadoc says:
"In all cases, arguments given to methods for these purposes need not
fall within the indicated ranges; for example, a date may be specified
as January 32 and is interpreted as meaning February 1."
-khc