THE PACKAGE JAVA.UTIL

java.util.Date

21.3

21.3.4

public Date(int year, int month, int date,

int hours, int minutes)

This constructor initializes a newly created

Date

 object so that it represents the

instant at the start of the minute specified by the

year

,

month

,

date

,

hours

, and

minutes

 arguments, in the local time zone. Thus, it has the same effect as the con 

structor call ( 21.3.5):

Date(year, month, date, hours, minutes, 0)

21.3.5

public Date(int year, int month, int date,

int hours, int minutes, int seconds)

This constructor initializes a newly created

Date

 object so that it represents the

instant at the start of the second specified by the

year

,

month

,

date

,

hours

,

minutes

, and

seconds

 arguments, in the local time zone.

21.3.6

public Date(String s)

throws IllegalArgumentException

This constructor initializes a newly created

Date

 object so that it represents the

date and time indicated by the string s, which is interpreted as if by the

parse

method ( 21.3.31).

21.3.7

public String toString()

This

Date

 object is converted to a

String

 of the form:

"dow mon dd hh:mm:ss zzz yyyy"

where:

dow

 is the day of the week (

Sun

,

Mon

,

Tue

,

Wed

,

Thu

,

Fri

,

Sat

).

mon

 is the month (

Jan

,

Feb

,

Mar

,

Apr

,

May

,

Jun

,

Jul

,

Aug

,

Sep

,

Oct

,

Nov

,

Dec

).

dd

 is the day of the month (

01

 through

31

), as two decimal digits.

hh

 is the hour of the day (

00

 through

23

), as two decimal digits.

mm

 is the minute within the hour (

00

 through

59

), as two decimal digits.

ss

 is the second within the minute (

00

 through

61

), as two decimal digits.

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