Android Date String Parse parseIcalDateToString(Date date, TimeZone tz)

Description

Pase the Ical Date to a String

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
date	the date
tz	timezone

Return

the parsed Date as a String

Declaration

private static String parseIcalDateToString(Date date, TimeZone tz) 

Method Source Code

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

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;

import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.TimeZone;

public class Main {
    /**//from  ww w  .  java 2 s.c  o m
     * Pase the Ical Date to a String
     * 
     * @param date
     *            the date
     * @param tz
     *            timezone
     * @return the parsed Date as a String
     */
    private static String parseIcalDateToString(Date date, TimeZone tz) {

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        SimpleDateFormat timeFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HHmm",
                Locale.getDefault());
        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd",
                Locale.getDefault());

        if (tz != null) {
            timeFormat.setTimeZone(tz);
            dateFormat.setTimeZone(tz);
        } else {
            timeFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
            dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
        }

        sb.append(dateFormat.format(date));
        sb.append("T");
        sb.append(timeFormat.format(date));
        sb.append("00");

        if (tz == null)
            sb.append('Z');

        return sb.toString();
    }
}

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