A far better way is to use prepared statements and setDate
Dave
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 16:23, Jeremy Buchmann wrote:
> On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 08:39 PM, Vernon Wu wrote:
> >
> > I am first time using the date type in the jdbc or potgreSQL in
> > general. One field of a DB table is the date type. In a
> > query string I have:
> >
> > INSERT INTO account(firstname, status,
> > userid,addr1,addr2,city,province,postcode,email,phone, cellphone, rdate,
> > notes, lastname) VALUES ('John', 'n', 'rt', ' 340 Road', 'suite 201',
> > 'mycity', 'wa', '98034', '34@32.com', '999-888-2222',
> > '111-222-3333', 'Mon Jun 10 08:42:06 SGT 2002', 'NA', 'familyname')
> >
> > And I get the error message java.sql.SQLException: ERROR: Bad date
> > external representation 'Mon Jun 10 08:4
> > 2:06 SGT 2002'.
> >
> > I use the java.util.date to create a new date instance to convert to
> > string. What is the right way to get the date right?
>
> I think you can only use that format with the timestamp type. For the
> plain old date type,
> I always use something like mm-dd-yyyy (or however you have formatted
> your date).
> To get the date in that format, I wrote the following function:
>
> public String getDateString(Date d)
> {
> Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
> cal.setTime(d);
> int month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;
> int day = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
> int year = cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
> return month + "-" + day + "-" + year;
> }
>
> HTH,
> --Jeremy
>
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