Java Date Format convertDateToString(Date date, boolean millis)

Description

convert Date To String

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static String convertDateToString(Date date, boolean millis) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Apache License 

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;

public class Main {
    private static final Date ONE_CE = new Date(-62135769600000L);

    public static String convertDateToString(Date date, boolean millis) {
        if (date == null) {
            return null;
        } else {/*from   w ww.j  a  va  2  s  . co  m*/
            DateFormat df;
            if (millis) {
                df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'");
            } else {
                df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
            }
            df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));

            if (date.before(ONE_CE)) {
                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(df.format(date));
                sb.insert(0, "-");
                return sb.toString();
            } else {
                return df.format(date);
            }
        }
    }
}

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