Here you can find the source of parseAtomDate(String date_str)
public static Date parseAtomDate(String date_str)
//package com.java2s; /*/*w ww . jav a 2 s. c o m*/ * Created on 02-Jan-2005 * Created by Paul Gardner * Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 Aelitis, 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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. * * AELITIS, SAS au capital de 46,603.30 euros * 8 Allee Lenotre, La Grille Royale, 78600 Le Mesnil le Roi, France. * */ import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import java.util.Locale; public class Main { public static Date parseAtomDate(String date_str) { // full-time from http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339 with T and Z final String[] formats = { "yyyy-MM-dd'T'kk:mm:ss'Z'", "yyyy-MM-dd'T'kk:mm:ssz", "yyyy-MM-dd'T'kk:mm:ssZ", "yyyy-MM-dd'T'kk:mm:ss" }; for (int i = 0; i < formats.length; i++) { try { SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(formats[i], Locale.US); return (format.parse(date_str)); } catch (ParseException e) { // Debug.printStackTrace(e); } } return (null); } }