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I am currently using SimpleDateFormat to create a datetime value in the format yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss. Here is my code:
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("yy-M-d H:m:ss").parse(datetime);
String Dtime = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").format(date);
However I would like the format to be this instead:
2013-04-12T13:38:48+02:00
How can I add the timezone to get the desired format?
Thank you!
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SimpleDateFormat myDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"); myDate. setTimeZone(TimeZone. getTimeZone("UTC")); Date newDate = myDate. parse("2010-05-23T09:01:02");
The java. util. Date has no concept of time zone, and only represents the number of seconds passed since the Unix epoch time – 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z. But, if you print the Date object directly, the Date object will be always printed with the default system time zone.
Using Java 7 First, let's get the current UTC date and a TimeZone object: Date nowUtc = new Date(); TimeZone asiaSingapore = TimeZone. getTimeZone(timeZone); In Java 7, we need to use the Calendar class to represent a date with a time zone.
Have a look at the API documentation of SimpleDateFormat. There you can see, that you can use the character 'z' for the timezone information.
Example: "yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z" will give you "2001.07.04 AD at 12:08:56 PDT"
To set the timezone on a date have a look at this question and the answers.
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