com.buck.commons.i18n
Class ISO8601DateTime

java.lang.Object
  com.buck.commons.i18n.ISO8601DateTime

public class ISO8601DateTime
extends Object

Provides conversions for ISO-8601 Extended Notation. The standard notation supported by this class is "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'". An example date formatted using this pattern is "2006-11-15T19:12:56.235Z".

Author:

Robert J. Buck

Field Summary

static String

ISO_8601_EXTENDED_PATTERN_Z The standard format pattern for ISO-8601 Extended Notation.

Constructor Summary

ISO8601DateTime()

Method Summary

static String	fromDate(Date date) Converts a java.util.Date object to its string representation.
static Date	toDate(String iso8601Date) Converts an ISO 8601 DateTime to a Java date object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

ISO_8601_EXTENDED_PATTERN_Z

public static final String ISO_8601_EXTENDED_PATTERN_Z

The standard format pattern for ISO-8601 Extended Notation.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

ISO8601DateTime

public ISO8601DateTime()

Method Detail

toDate

public static Date toDate(String iso8601Date)
                   throws ParseException

Converts an ISO 8601 DateTime to a Java date object.

Parameters:

iso8601Date - the extended ISO 8601 date string

Returns:

a Date object set to the specified time

Throws:

ParseException - if the iso8601Date is incorrectly formatted

fromDate

public static String fromDate(Date date)

Converts a java.util.Date object to its string representation. The date is represented as a time relative to the default timezone; that is, the string representation of the time in the current time zone.

Parameters:

date - the date to format

Returns:

a String representation of the date formatted using the ISO 8601 extended pattern