Output RFC 3339 Timestamp in Java
I spent quite a lot of time looking for an answer to the same issue and I found something here : http://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
Suggested answer:
String timestamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'h:m:ssZZZZZ").format(new Date());
If you notice I am using 5 'Z' instead of one. This gives the output with a colon in the offset like this: "2008-11-13T12:23:30-08:00". Hope it helps.
Starting in Java 7, there's the X
pattern string for ISO8601 time zone. For strings in the format you describe, use XXX
. See the documentation.
Sample:
System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX")
.format(new Date()));
Result:
2014-03-31T14:11:29+02:00
Check out the Joda Time package. They make RFC 3339 date formatting a lot easier.
Joda Example:
DateTime dt = new DateTime(2011,1,2,12,45,0,0, DateTimeZone.UTC);
DateTimeFormatter fmt = ISODateTimeFormat.dateTime();
String outRfc = fmt.print(dt);
From the "get it done dept," one solution is to use regexes to fix up the string after SimpleDateFormat has completed. Something like s/(\d{2})(\d{2})$/$1:$2/ in Perl.
If you are even remotely interested in this, I will edit this response with the working Java code.
But, yeah. I am hitting this problem too. RFC3339, I'm looking at you!
EDIT:
This works for me
// As a private class member
private SimpleDateFormat rfc3339 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");
String toRFC3339(Date d)
{
return rfc3339.format(d).replaceAll("(\\d\\d)(\\d\\d)$", "$1:$2");
}