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Wes
Wes

Reputation: 1257

How to generate this timestamp using Java

20160222082641Z

This kind of timestamp is logged using some LDAP functionality. I need to duplicate it in a Java program.

My team members are unable to tell me how to do this or really give me any kind of useful help. Would anyone be familiar with how to generate this in Java? Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 46

Answers (2)

slambeth
slambeth

Reputation: 897

Use SimpleDateformat:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));

String ldapDate = format.format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()) + "Z";

System.out.println(ldapDate);

Upvotes: 1

PEF
PEF

Reputation: 207

Using Java 8, the following imports are needed:

import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import static java.time.ZoneOffset.UTC;

Using Java 8, the following code should work:

    LocalDateTime now = LocalDateTime.now(UTC);
    String timeString = now.toString();
    String strOut = timeString.substring(0,4)
            + timeString.substring(5,7) + timeString.substring(8,10)
            + timeString.substring(11,13) + timeString.substring(14,16)
            + timeString.substring(17,19) + "Z";

    System.out.println(now);
    System.out.println(strOut);

Upvotes: 0

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