SimpleDateFormat can parse MMddyy wrong without error???

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caultonpos@gmail.com - 16 Feb 2008 01:11 GMT

Java 1.6 I execute the following code:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMddyy");
Date d = sdf.parse("013355");

and it returns the date

Wed Feb 02 00:00:00 EST 1955

no parse exception?

What am I missing?

Greg

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Daniele Futtorovic - 16 Feb 2008 01:41 GMT

> Java 1.6 I execute the following code:
>
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> What am I missing?

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/DateFormat.html#setLenient(boolean)>
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html#setLenient(boolean)>

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