Formats a Date into a XEP-0082 - XMPP Date and Time Profiles string. - Java java.lang

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Formats a Date into a XEP-0082 - XMPP Date and Time Profiles string.

Demo Code

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 * $Date: 2010-08-15 08:20:48 -0500 (Sun, 15 Aug 2010) $
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//package com.java2s;

import java.text.DateFormat;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Date format as defined in XEP-0082 - XMPP Date and Time Profiles. The time zone is set to
     * UTC.
     * <p>
     * Date formats are not synchronized. Since multiple threads access the format concurrently, it
     * must be synchronized externally or you can use the convenience methods
     * {@link #parseXEP0082Date(String)} and {@link #formatXEP0082Date(Date)}.
     */
    public static final DateFormat XEP_0082_UTC_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat(
            "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'");

    /**
     * Formats a Date into a XEP-0082 - XMPP Date and Time Profiles string.
     * 
     * @param date the time value to be formatted into a time string
     * @return the formatted time string in XEP-0082 format
     */
    public static String formatXEP0082Date(Date date) {
        synchronized (XEP_0082_UTC_FORMAT) {
            return XEP_0082_UTC_FORMAT.format(date);
        }
    }
}

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