Java Calendar Format toW3C(Calendar cal)

Description

convert Calendar to w3c format, See <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime">W3C format</a> i.e.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
cal	incoming Calendar

Return

w3c formatted time

Declaration

public static String toW3C(Calendar cal) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//from   www  .ja va  2  s. c  o  m
 * @(#)TimeUtils.java   0.51 1999/07/14
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2004, Pat Farrell, All rights reserved.
 * based on work Copyright (c) 2000, OneBigCD, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 * Copyright (C) 2011 Patrick Farrell   All Rights reserved.
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 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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 * It is abstract because all functions are static
 */

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

import java.util.GregorianCalendar;

import java.util.TimeZone;

public class Main {
    /** constant for UTC */
    public static final TimeZone utcTZ = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");

    /**
     * convert Date to w3c format, 
     * See <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime">W3C format</a>
     * i.e.  1994-11-05T13:15:30Z
     * @param dd incoming Date
     * @return w3c formatted time
     */
    public static String toW3C(Date dd) {
        if (dd == null)
            return null;
        Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(utcTZ);
        cal.setTime(dd);
        return toW3C(cal);
    }

    /**
     * convert Calendar to w3c format, 
     * See <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime">W3C format</a>
     * i.e.  1994-11-05T13:15:30Z
     * @param cal incoming Calendar
     * @return w3c formatted time
     */
    public static String toW3C(Calendar cal) {
        SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ss Z");
        fmt.setTimeZone(utcTZ);
        return fmt.format(cal.getTime());
    }
}

Related

1. print(Calendar[] calendar)
2. printCalendar(Calendar cal)
3. toInfo(Calendar calendar)
4. toShort(Calendar calendar)
5. toSimpleFormat(Calendar cal)