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Bug 355163

Summary:	Java string to date conversion is uisng YYYYmmdd egl.lang.EDate.egl specifies MMddyyyy
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Kathy Carroll <carrollk>
Component:	EDT	Assignee:	Project Inbox <edt.javagen-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	mheitz
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Kathy Carroll

2011-08-18 16:10:00 EDT

I expected this to work:

 qDay date = "06/28/1969";

not this:

 qDay date = "19690628";

================= EDT CODE ==================

program dateTester type BasicProgram {}
	
	function main()
		creation();
	end
	
	function creation()
	 // This should work
	  try
		expecting string = "06/28/1969";
		qDay date = expecting;
		actual string = qDay;
		If (actual == expecting)
			syslib.writeStdOut("MM/DD/YYYY Equal");
		else
			syslib.writeStdout("MM/DD/YYYY Different");
		end
	  onException(oops TypeCastException)
	  	 Syslib.writeStdOut(" Can't create date using MM/DD/YYYY");
	  	 creationworks();
	  end
	end
	
	function creationWorks()
		// this shouldn't work
		try
			expecting string = "19690628";
			qDay date = expecting;
			actual string = qDay;
			If (actual == expecting)
				syslib.writeStdOut("YYYYMMDD Equal");
			else
				syslib.writeStdout("YYYYMMDD Different");
			end
	   	onException(oops TypeCastException)
	  		 Syslib.writeStdOut(" Can't create date using YYYYMMDD");
	  	end
	end

end

Comment 1 Matt Heitz

2011-08-24 22:43:43 EDT

I fixed this problem, but your testcase will fail due to a different bug.  The bug 355782 - Dates are converted to strings as if they were timestamp("yyyyMMdd")

Comment 2 Kathy Carroll

2011-08-30 08:27:52 EDT

verified

Comment 3 Lisa Lasher

2011-10-11 16:24:50 EDT

Closing this defect.