Java Date Format formatDate(Date value)

Description

format Date

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String formatDate(Date value) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*from   w w  w .j a v a  2s . com*/
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 * Copyright (c) 2015 Indoqa Software Design und Beratung GmbH. All rights reserved.
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of
 * the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0, which accompanies this distribution and
 * is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html.
 */

import java.text.DateFormat;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;

public class Main {
    private static final String ISO_8601_DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'";
    private static final String TIMEZONE_UTC = "UTC";

    public static String formatDate(Date value) {
        String formattedValue;
        if (value == null) {
            formattedValue = null;
        } else {
            formattedValue = getTimeFormat().format(value);
        }
        return formattedValue;
    }

    private static DateFormat getTimeFormat() {
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(ISO_8601_DATE_FORMAT);
        df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone(TIMEZONE_UTC));
        return df;
    }
}

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