Set timezone to IST, but I still get a wrong-date error

Question

I want to take current time irrespective to the system date. I am using Glassfish server and derby in netbeans. I tried the code below for getting current date according to IST:

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyymmdd");
    df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("ist"));
    String gmtTime = df.format(new java.util.Date().getTime());

    java.util.Date parsed = null;
    try {
        parsed = (java.util.Date) df.parse(gmtTime);
    } catch (ParseException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(EmployeePanel.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    }
    java.sql.Date date = new java.sql.Date(parsed.getTime());

but I am getting 2017-01-08 instead of 2017-08-08.

Apart from Jens' answer, check this question too -> [Java timezone - strange behavior with IST?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11264697/java-timezone-strange-behavior-with-ist) — Am_I_Helpful, Aug 08 '17 at 06:23

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 08 '17 at 06:40

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m is minute not month (M). The right pattern is:

SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");

The pattern definition is case sensitive!

For more informations see the javadoc of SimpleDateFormat

edited Aug 08 '17 at 06:40

Scary Wombat

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answered Aug 08 '17 at 06:23

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Set timezone to IST, but I still get a wrong-date error

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