Java tutorial
/******************************************************************************* * Software Name : RCS IMS Stack * * Copyright (C) 2010 France Telecom S.A. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. ******************************************************************************/ package com.shekar.msrp.utils; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import org.joda.time.DateTime; import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone; import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter; import org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat; /** * * @author chandrashekar.vuppal * */ public class DateUtils { /** * ISO 8601 date formats */ private static SimpleDateFormat ISO8601DATEFORMAT[] = { new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"), new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mmZ") }; /** * Encode a long date to string value in Z format (see RFC 3339) * * @param date Date in milliseconds * @return String */ public static String encodeDate(long date) { // Apply RFC3339 format using JODA-TIME DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(date, DateTimeZone.UTC); DateTimeFormatter dateFormatter = ISODateTimeFormat.dateTime(); String dateString = dateFormatter.print(dateTime); System.out.println("Server side date (RFC 3339): " + dateString); return dateString; } /** * Decode a string date to long value (see ISO8601 and RFC 3339) * * @param date Date as string * @return Milliseconds */ public static long decodeDate(String date) { long millis = -1; // Try to use ISO8601 String normalizedDate = date.replaceAll("Z$", "+0000"); for (int i = 0; millis == -1 && i < ISO8601DATEFORMAT.length; i++) { try { Date iso8601 = ISO8601DATEFORMAT[i].parse(normalizedDate); millis = iso8601.getTime(); } catch (ParseException ex) { // Try next format } } // If still not valid format is found let's try RFC3339 if (millis == -1) { Date t = null; try { t = parseRFC3339Date(date); } catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (ParseException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } millis = t.getTime(); } return millis; } static Date parseRFC3339Date(String datestring) throws java.text.ParseException, IndexOutOfBoundsException { Date d = new Date(); //if there is no time zone, we don't need to do any special parsing. if (datestring.endsWith("Z")) { try { SimpleDateFormat s = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");//spec for RFC3339 d = s.parse(datestring); } catch (java.text.ParseException pe) {//try again with optional decimals SimpleDateFormat s = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSSSS'Z'");//spec for RFC3339 (with fractional seconds) s.setLenient(true); d = s.parse(datestring); } return d; } //step one, split off the timezone. String firstpart = datestring.substring(0, datestring.lastIndexOf('-')); String secondpart = datestring.substring(datestring.lastIndexOf('-')); //step two, remove the colon from the timezone offset secondpart = secondpart.substring(0, secondpart.indexOf(':')) + secondpart.substring(secondpart.indexOf(':') + 1); datestring = firstpart + secondpart; SimpleDateFormat s = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");//spec for RFC3339 try { d = s.parse(datestring); } catch (java.text.ParseException pe) {//try again with optional decimals s = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSSSSZ");//spec for RFC3339 (with fractional seconds) s.setLenient(true); d = s.parse(datestring); } return d; } //some testing stuff in main() public static void main(String[] args) throws java.text.ParseException { System.out.println(parseRFC3339Date("2007-05-01T15:43:26-07:00")); System.out.println(parseRFC3339Date("2007-05-01T15:43:26.3-07:00")); System.out.println(parseRFC3339Date("2007-05-01T15:43:26.3452-07:00")); System.out.println(parseRFC3339Date("2007-05-01T15:43:26.3452Z")); System.out.println(parseRFC3339Date("2007-05-01T15:43:26.3Z")); System.out.println(parseRFC3339Date("2007-05-01T15:43:26Z")); } }