Take an ISO 8601 string and return a Date object. - Android java.util

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Description

Take an ISO 8601 string and return a Date object.

Demo Code

/**/*from  w ww .  java 2 s  .c o  m*/
 * Copyright (c) 2012 Todoroo Inc
 *
 * See the file "LICENSE" for the full license governing this code.
 */
//package com.java2s;

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import android.util.Log;

public class Main {
    private static final String ISO_8601_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssz";

    /**
     * Take an ISO 8601 string and return a Date object.
     * On failure, returns null.
     */
    public static Date getDateFromIso8601String(String s) {
        SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(ISO_8601_FORMAT);
        try {
            return df.parse(s);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            Log.e("DateUtilities", "Error parsing ISO 8601 date");
            return null;
        }
    }
}

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