Java Date Format ISO iso8601(final Date date)

Description

iso

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String iso8601(final Date date) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

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

public class Main {
    /**// w ww .j a  va  2 s.c  o  m
     * Encodes date value into ISO8601 that can be compared 
     * lexicographically.
     * 
     * @return string representation of the date value for the current date.
     */
    public static String iso8601() {
        return iso8601(new Date());
    }

    public static String iso8601(final Date date) {
        final SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
        // Java doesn't handle ISO8601 nicely: need to add ':' manually 
        final String result = dateFormatter.format(date);
        return result.substring(0, result.length() - 2) + ":" + result.substring(result.length() - 2);
    }
}

Related

1. getIsoTimestampFormatter()
2. getJavaISO8601Time(Date date)
3. getSDFISO8601()
4. getShortISODateTime(final Date inDate)
5. iso(Date date)
6. iso8601Date(Date d)
7. isoDateFormat(Calendar calendar)
8. isoDateFormat(final Date date)
9. isoDateTimeUTC(final Date val)