my program has a field to insert hours manually. My mysql table has two timestamp fields - one to register when a employee arrive at work and the other when leaves. What I am doing so far is: convert the Strings to date and format it properly -> than I convert this data object into timestamp. The problem is that I am getting the year of 2007. Is there a way when I do that to automatically insert the actual date whith the manual hours inserted? Cheers