Java Date Format Pattern createFormatter()

Description

This creates a date formatter for yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z' which is has to be identical to buildDate used in pom.xml

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static DateFormat createFormatter() 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.text.DateFormat;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.*;

public class Main {
    /**
     * This creates a date formatter for yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z' which is has to be identical to
     * buildDate used in pom.xml
     */
    public static DateFormat createFormatter() {
        SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(
                "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
        df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
        return df;
    }
}

Related

1. createFormatter(String str)
2. createSimpleFormat()
3. createThreadLocal(final String format)
4. get8charDateFormat()