Java SimpleDateFormat for YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD [duplicate]

One of the external APIs we use requires

"YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD"

format to be passed in

XMLGregorianCalendar

object. I am not sure if there is anything in Java that supports "T". I was wondering, if a date can be parsed into above format in Java? An example of a valid date they have provided is

"2009-07-16T19:20:30-05:00"............

 Update: SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZ"); GregorianCalendar gc = new GregorianCalendar(); String dateString = sdf.format(gc.getTime()); gc.setTime(sdf.parse(dateString)); XMLGregorianCalendar date2 = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(gc); 

Output:

2014-04-17T13:11:30.000+01:00

4 Answers

Use JodaTime's DateTimeFormat API with "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ" date pattern

String date = "2009-07-16T19:20:30-05:00"; String pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"; DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern(pattern); DateTime dateTime = dtf.parseDateTime(date); System.out.println(dateTime); // 2009-07-16T19:20:30-05:00 

Try Java 8 LocalDateTime.parse

You could also use threeten if you're on an earlier Java Version.

Example: DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ").format(yourLocalDateTime)

You need to put it in single quotes.

Try

YYYY-mm-dd'T'hh:MM:ssZ 

Yes,you can.Try this date formatter.

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS");