Re: Inserting 'Dates' in database

On Monday 08 April 2002 23:58, Dan McDaniel wrote:
> I am writing a simple Java user interface to a simple data base in
> Postgresql.
> I have no trouble connecting through my code using the JDBC driver. I can
> get several different Resultsets back with no problem. I am having trouble
> inserting data into the database. In particular Date data types. I get a
> message that says "Bad Date external representation".
> Here is how I am trying to solve the problem:
> I am getting a text string from the user interface and storing it in a
> String varialble called " dateInsert".
> Using a method I wrote call "convertDate()" , I am converting this date
> first to a java.util.Date object, a time object and finally to a
> java.sql.Date object called "sqldate" which I include in the Insert
> statement.
>
> here is the code snippet for the "convertDate() method:
>
> I pent allmost 18 hours trying to work this out yesterday and have run out
> of ideas. Can anyone suggest a direction for me?

Hi,
your convertDate() method looks OK - i guess your problem is with the SQL
Statement. Did you use a PreparedStatement and its setDate() method to build
your statement? If not, try this, it avoids a lot of trouble with Dates....

Greetings
Andreas