Java Date Format formatDate(Date date)

Description

Formats a date into yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ, for example 2008-02-13T18:54:29.147-03:00

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
date	the date to format

Return

a string representation of the date

Declaration

public static String formatDate(Date date) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*from   w  ww .j  a  va  2 s . co m*/
 * $Revision$
 * $Date$
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Jive Software. All rights reserved.
 *
 * 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.
 */

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    private static final SimpleDateFormat dateFormatMil = new SimpleDateFormat(
            "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");

    /**
     * Formats a date into yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ, for example 2008-02-13T18:54:29.147-03:00
     *
     * @param date the date to format
     * @return a string representation of the date
     */
    public static String formatDate(Date date) {
        // REST writes dates time zone with ':', somthing like -3:00
        // to format it they should be added
        String d = dateFormatMil.format(date);
        d = d.substring(0, d.length() - 2) + ":"
                + d.substring(d.length() - 2);
        return d;
    }
}

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