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/* Developed with the contribution of the European Commission - Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries European Union, 2015-2016. This file is part of the Integrated Fisheries Data Management (IFDM) Suite. The IFDM Suite is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version. The IFDM Suite 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 General Public License along with the IFDM Suite. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ package eu.europa.ec.fisheries.uvms.exchange.model.util; import java.util.Date; import java.util.GregorianCalendar; import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeConfigurationException; import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory; import javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar; import org.joda.time.DateTime; import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone; import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat; import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter; import org.slf4j.Logger; import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory; public class DateUtils { private static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DateUtils.class); final static String DATE_TIME_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z"; final static String DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd"; public static XMLGregorianCalendar dateToXmlGregorian(Date timestamp) { GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(); cal.setTime(timestamp); XMLGregorianCalendar xmlCalendar = null; try { xmlCalendar = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(cal); } catch (DatatypeConfigurationException ex) { } return xmlCalendar; } public static DateTime nowUTC() throws IllegalArgumentException { return new DateTime(DateTimeZone.UTC); } public static Date parseTimestamp(XMLGregorianCalendar timestamp) { if (timestamp != null) { return timestamp.toGregorianCalendar().getTime(); } return null; } private static Date parseToUTC(String format, String dateString) { DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern(format).withOffsetParsed(); DateTime dateTime = formatter.withZoneUTC().parseDateTime(dateString); GregorianCalendar cal = dateTime.toGregorianCalendar(); return cal.getTime(); } public static Date parseToUTCDateTime(String dateString) { return parseToUTC(DATE_TIME_FORMAT, dateString); } }