SimpleDateFormat with TimeZone

Question

I'm trying to format date from java.util.Date. I need this format:

2016-06-10T13:38:13.687+02:00.

How correctly convert this from standard Date format

May 04 09:51:52 CDT 2009 ?

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss z", Locale.getDefault());
sdf.format(new Date());

This code unfortunately return value without +02:00.

Answer 1

Just turn your z to upperCase

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss Z", Locale.getDefault());
    sdf.format(new Date());

Result: 2016-06-10T13:53:22 +0200

Answer 2

As per the standard Java docs: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

for getting date and time formatting of

2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-07:00

You Need to use below String pattern:

"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX"

So with below code, you can get what you want:

SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX", Locale.getDefault());
    simpleDateFormat .format(new Date());