Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Copyright (C) 2015 Marius C. Silaghi Author: Marius Silaghi: msilaghi@fit.edu Florida Tech, Human Decision Support Systems Laboratory This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either the current version of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Calendar; import java.util.TimeZone; public class Main { /** * uses format "yyyy-MM-dd:hh'h'mm'm'ss's'SSS'Z'" * @param cal * @return */ public static String getStringDate(Calendar cal) { SimpleDateFormat dFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd:hh'h'mm'm'ss's'SSS'Z'"); /*set the date format*/ dFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT")); return dFormat.format(cal.getTime()); } }