System.formatDate() Year 2016 Bug?

[Kagome]

Hello, can anyone confirm this Happy-New-Year-feature (found on a german windows Server 2k12R2, with vCenter Orchestrator 5.5.3):

- Create a new Workflow

- Add one scriptable Task

Use the following content for the scriptable Task:

var myTimestamp = System.getCurrentTime();

var myDate = new Date();

myDate.setTime(myTimestamp);

System.log("getYear from DateObject: "+(myDate.getYear()+1900));

System.log(System.formatDate(myDate, "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"));

Run the workflow.

I would exspect in the log lines:

2016

2016-01-02 13:00:00

But I get:

2016

2015-01-02 13:00:00

The clock on the server is correct.

A SR is already open but I'm interested if its only on "my" server or on other servers, too.

[iiliev · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This is not a bug but kind of expected behavior.

Your date pattern uses uppercase 'Y' for year. According to spec http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html  'Y' is not 'year' but 'week year'. To get the 'year', you need to use lowercase 'y'. Check the following page for what is the difference between year and week year

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/GregorianCalendar.html#week_year

To fix your code, just replace YYYY with yyyy. The pattern should become "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"

[Kagome]

Thank you for the solution.

I never heard of "week of year" before ...