Java Date Parse getDateFromISO8601(String dateString)

Description

Gets a Date object from the dateString

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
dateString	The date as a string in ISO-8601 format

Return

a Java Date object.

Declaration

public static Date getDateFromISO8601(String dateString) 

Method Source Code

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

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

public class Main {
    /**/*from  w w w.j  a v a 2 s  .  co m*/
     * Gets a <code>Date</code> object from the <code>dateString</code>
     * @param dateString The date as a string in ISO-8601 format
     * @return a Java <code>Date</code> object.
     */
    public static Date getDateFromISO8601(String dateString) {
        String tz = "-08:00";
        if (dateString.endsWith(":00")) {
            tz = dateString.substring(dateString.length() - 6);
            //System.out.println( "debug: tz = " + tz );
        }
        String dateNoTimeZone = dateString.substring(0,
                dateString.length() - 6);
        //System.out.println( "debug: dateNoTimeZone = " + dateNoTimeZone );
        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(
                "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
        TimeZone timezone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT" + tz);
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(timezone);
        format.setCalendar(cal);
        Date date = null;
        try {
            date = format.parse(dateNoTimeZone);
        } catch (ParseException ex) {
        }
        return date;

    }
}

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2. getDateFromFormattedDate(String dateStr, String format)
3. getDateFromFormattedTimeStamp( String formattedTimeStamp)
4. getDateFromIRODSValue(final String irodsValue)
5. getDateFromISO8601(Object iso8601)
6. getDateFromISO8601(String iso8601Date)
7. getDateFromIsoString(String dateString)
8. getDateFromISOString(String iso)
9. getDateFromOffset(Date prevDate, int offset)