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Mohan
Mohan

Reputation: 597

Date with Timezone in Java

What is the Simple Date Format for "2014-01-02T23:03:30-05:00"?

I have googled and got the format only, yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssz. But this format is only working when my date format is without colon in the end "2014-01-02T23:03:30-0500".

Can anyone please advise on this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 367

Answers (4)

Basil Bourque
Basil Bourque

Reputation: 340118

FYI, you can pass that string directly to a constructor in Joda-Time 2.3. No need for a formatter. Joda-Time uses that standard ISO 8601 format as its default, even tolerating the lack of a colon in the offset.

Instead of passing DateTimeZone.UTC as I did in my example code below, you would pass the specific time zone of your interest.

// © 2013 Basil Bourque. This source code may be used freely forever by anyone taking full responsibility for doing so.
// import org.joda.time.*;
// import org.joda.time.format.*;

String string = "2014-01-02T23:03:30-0500";
DateTime dateTime = new DateTime( string, DateTimeZone.UTC );
System.out.println( "dateTime: " + dateTime );

When run:

dateTime: 2014-01-03T04:03:30.000Z

Upvotes: 0

Jin Kwon
Jin Kwon

Reputation: 22027

There is the letter X for ISO 8601 timezone.

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;

public class TimeZoneTest {

    public static void main(final String[] args) throws ParseException {

        final DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX");
        final String string = "2014-01-02T23:03:30-05:00";
        final Date date = format.parse(string);
        System.out.println(date);
    }
}

Upvotes: 4

EisenRatte
EisenRatte

Reputation: 542

Use an X instead of the Z

docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Upvotes: 1

assylias
assylias

Reputation: 328873

If you use Java 7, you can replace the z by a X to allow for colon separator: yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX.

See also the javadoc.

Before Java 7, you need to either parse it manually by first removing the colon or you can use an external library such as Jodatime or threeten.

Upvotes: 6

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