Here you can find the source of parseISO8601Date(String encoded, Date fallback)
public static Date parseISO8601Date(String encoded, Date fallback)
//package com.java2s; /*/*ww w . jav a 2 s . c o m*/ * Copyright (C) 2012 Krawler Information Systems Pvt Ltd * All rights reserved. * * This program 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 2 * 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 General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; public class Main { public static Date parseISO8601Date(String encoded, Date fallback) { if (encoded == null) return fallback; // normalize format to "2005-10-19T16:25:38-0800" int length = encoded.length(); if (length == 4) encoded += "-01-01T00:00:00-0000"; else if (length == 7) encoded += "-01T00:00:00-0000"; else if (length == 10) encoded += "T00:00:00-0000"; else if (length < 17) return fallback; else if (encoded.charAt(16) != ':') encoded = encoded.substring(0, 16) + ":00" + encoded.substring(16); else if (length >= 22 && encoded.charAt(19) == '.') encoded = encoded.substring(0, 19) + encoded.substring(21); // timezone cleanup: this format understands '-0800', not '-08:00' int colon = encoded.lastIndexOf(':'); if (colon > 19) encoded = encoded.substring(0, colon) + encoded.substring(colon + 1); // timezone cleanup: this format doesn't understand 'Z' or default // timezones if (encoded.length() == 19) encoded += "-0000"; else if (encoded.endsWith("Z")) encoded = encoded.substring(0, encoded.length() - 1) + "-0000"; try { return new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ").parse(encoded); } catch (ParseException e) { return fallback; } } }