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/* Developed with the contribution of the European Commission - Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries European Union, 2015-2016. This file is part of the Integrated Fisheries Data Management (IFDM) Suite. The IFDM Suite is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version. The IFDM Suite is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the IFDM Suite. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ package eu.europa.ec.fisheries.uvms.plugins.naf.util; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import java.util.GregorianCalendar; import org.joda.time.DateTime; import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone; import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat; import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter; import org.slf4j.Logger; import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory; /** **/ public class DateUtil { final static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DateUtil.class); private final static String DATE_TIME_FORMAT = "yyyyMMdd HHmm z"; private static Date parseToUTC(String format, String dateString) { DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern(format); DateTime dateTime = formatter.withZoneUTC().parseDateTime(dateString); LOG.info("JodaTime: {}", dateTime); return dateTime.toLocalDateTime().toDate(); } public static Date parseToUTCDateTime(String dateString) { return parseToUTC(DATE_TIME_FORMAT, dateString); } }