All,
I know I have asked a similar question on parsing an ISO8601 date string into a Date using Java before, but this is a more specific problem using the SimpleDateFormat class.
I have read the article Wiki ISO8601 Date.
I have been supplied an XML file from a customer which has a date and time with the following format:
2012-08-24T12:15:00+02:00
According to the Wiki article this is valid which is fair enough.
Given the following code to parse this string, a ParseException is thrown with the message "Unparseable date: "2012-08-24T12:15:00+02:00"".
String inputDate = "2012-08-24T12:15:00+02:00";
String format = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssz";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
Date d = sdf.parse(inputDate);
The problem is with the colon in the timezone specifier. +02:00 in the timezone causes the exception to be thrown. +0200 works fine.
Question is, is it possible to parse this type of string with the SimpleDateFormat?
Thanks
Andez
解决方案
No, using SimpleDateFormat, parsing this date is not possible (at least not in jdk 6 or lower). We had to write our own adapter for this ourselves.
Note, since this format is a valid part of XML Schema, you can use the DatatypeConverter.parseDateTime() method to parse this date.