Converting ISO 8601-compliant String to java util Date

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I am trying to convert an ISO 8601 formatted String to a java util Date    I found the pattern yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ssZ to be ISO8601-compliant if used with a Locale  compare sample    However  using the java text SimpleDateFormat  I cannot convert the correctly formatted String 2010-01-01T12 00 00 01 00  I have to convert it first to 2010-01-01T12 00 00 0100  without the colon    So  the current solution is  SimpleDateFormat ISO8601DATEFORMAT   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ssZ   Locale GERMANY   String date    2010-01-01T12 00 00 01 00  replaceAll     0  0-9   1    00     0 100    System out println ISO8601DATEFORMAT parse date      which obviously isn t that nice  Am I missing something or is there a better solution     Answer  Thanks to JuanZe s comment  I found the Joda-Time magic  it is also described here   So  the solution is  DateTimeFormatter parser2   ISODateTimeFormat dateTimeNoMillis    String jtdate    2010-01-01T12 00 00 01 00   System out println parser2 parseDateTime jtdate      Or more simply  use the default parser via the constructor   DateTime dt   new DateTime   2010-01-01T12 00 00 01 00        To me  this is nice

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The DatatypeConverter solution doesn t work in all VMs  The following works for me   javax xml datatype DatatypeFactory newInstance   newXMLGregorianCalendar  2011-01-01Z   toGregorianCalendar   getTime     I ve found that joda does not work out of the box  specifically for the example I gave above with the timezone on a date  which should be valid

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To just format a date like this the following worked for me in a Java 6 based application  There is a DateFormat class JacksonThymeleafISO8601DateFormat in the thymeleaf project which inserts the missing colon   https   github com thymeleaf thymeleaf blob 40d27f44df7b52eda47d1bc6f1b3012add6098b3 src main java org thymeleaf standard serializer StandardJavaScriptSerializer java  I used it for ECMAScript date format compatibilty

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Java 8  Simple one liner that I didn t found in answers  Date date   Date from ZonedDateTime parse  quot 2010-01-01T12 00 00 01 00 quot   toInstant      Date doesn t contain timezone  it will be stored in UTC  but will be properly converted to your JVM timezone even during simple output with System out println date

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I think what a lot of people want to do is parse JSON date strings  There is a good chance if you come to this page that you might want to convert a JavaScript JSON date to a Java date   To show what a JSON date string looks like       var d new Date        var s   JSON stringify d        document write s       document write   lt br   gt   d          2013-12-14T01 55 33 412Z      Fri Dec 13 2013 17 55 33 GMT-0800  PST    The JSON date string is 2013-12-14T01 55 33 412Z   Dates are not covered by JSON spec per say  but the above is a very specific ISO 8601 format  while ISO 8601 is much much bigger and that is a mere subset albeit a very important one   See http   www json org See http   en wikipedia org wiki ISO 8601 See http   www w3 org TR NOTE-datetime  As it happens I wrote a JSON parser and a PLIST parser both of which use ISO-8601 but not the same bits          var d new Date        var s   JSON stringify d        document write s       document write   lt br   gt   d          2013-12-14T01 55 33 412Z      Fri Dec 13 2013 17 55 33 GMT-0800  PST         Test public void jsonJavaScriptDate         String test     2013-12-14T01 55 33 412Z        Date date   Dates fromJsonDate   test        Date date2   Dates fromJsonDate    test         assertEquals date2 toString          date        puts  date       I wrote two ways to do this for my project  One standard  one fast   Again  JSON date string is a very specific implementation of ISO 8601       I posted the other one in the other answer which should work for PLIST dates  which are a different ISO 8601 format    The JSON date is as follows   public static Date fromJsonDate   String string          try            return new SimpleDateFormat    yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ss SSSXXX   parse   string          catch   ParseException e             return Exceptions handle  Date class   Not a valid JSON date   e               PLIST files  ASCII non GNUNext  also uses ISO 8601 but no miliseconds so    not all ISO-8601 dates are the same   At least I have not found one that uses milis yet and the parser I have seen skip the timezone altogether OMG    Now for the fast version  you can find it in Boon    public static Date fromJsonDate  String string          return fromJsonDate   Reflection toCharArray   string    0  string length            Note that Reflection toCharArray uses unsafe if available but defaults to string toCharArray if not    You can take it out of the example by replacing Reflection toCharArray   string   with string toCharArray      public static Date fromJsonDate  char   charArray  int from  int to          if  isJsonDate   charArray  from  to              int year   CharScanner parseIntFromTo   charArray  from   0  from   4            int month   CharScanner parseIntFromTo   charArray   from  5   from  7            int day   CharScanner parseIntFromTo   charArray   from  8   from  10            int hour   CharScanner parseIntFromTo   charArray   from  11   from  13             int minute   CharScanner parseIntFromTo   charArray   from  14   from  16             int second   CharScanner parseIntFromTo   charArray   from  17   from  19             int miliseconds   CharScanner parseIntFromTo   charArray   from  20   from  23             TimeZone tz   TimeZone getTimeZone    GMT               return toDate   tz  year  month  day  hour  minute  second  miliseconds             else           return null             The isJsonDate is implemented as follows   public static boolean isJsonDate  char   charArray  int start  int to         boolean valid   true      final int length   to -start       if  length    JSON TIME LENGTH            return false             valid  amp     charArray   start   19                  if   valid            return false              valid  amp     charArray   start  4        -    amp  amp               charArray   start  7        -    amp  amp               charArray   start  10       T    amp  amp               charArray   start  13            amp  amp               charArray   start  16                 return valid      Anyway    my guess is that quite a few people who come here   might be looking for the JSON Date String and although it is an ISO-8601 date  it is a very specific one that needs a very specific parse   public static int parseIntFromTo   char   digitChars  int offset  int to         int num   digitChars  offset   -  0       if     offset  lt  to             num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0             if     offset  lt  to                 num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                 if     offset  lt  to                     num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                     if     offset  lt  to                         num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                         if     offset  lt  to                             num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                             if     offset  lt  to                                 num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                                 if     offset  lt  to                                     num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                                     if     offset  lt  to                                         num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                                                                                                                                                                         return num      See https   github com RichardHightower boon Boon has a PLIST parser  ASCII  and a JSON parser    The JSON parser is the fastest Java JSON parser that I know of    Independently verified by the Gatling Performance dudes   https   github com gatling json-parsers-benchmark  Benchmark                               Mode Thr     Count  Sec         Mean   Mean error        Units BoonCharArrayBenchmark roundRobin      thrpt  16        10    1   724815 875    54339 825    ops s JacksonObjectBenchmark roundRobin      thrpt  16        10    1   580014 875   145097 700    ops s JsonSmartBytesBenchmark roundRobin     thrpt  16        10    1   575548 435    64202 618    ops s JsonSmartStringBenchmark roundRobin    thrpt  16        10    1   541212 220    45144 815    ops s GSONStringBenchmark roundRobin         thrpt  16        10    1   522947 175    65572 427    ops s BoonDirectBytesBenchmark roundRobin    thrpt  16        10    1   521528 912    41366 197    ops s JacksonASTBenchmark roundRobin         thrpt  16        10    1   512564 205   300704 545    ops s GSONReaderBenchmark roundRobin         thrpt  16        10    1   446322 220    41327 496    ops s JsonSmartStreamBenchmark roundRobin    thrpt  16        10    1   276399 298   130055 340    ops s JsonSmartReaderBenchmark roundRobin    thrpt  16        10    1    86789 825    17690 031    ops s   It has the fastest JSON parser for streams  readers  bytes    char    CharSequence  StringBuilder  CharacterBuffer   and String   See more benchmarks at   https   github com RichardHightower json-parsers-benchmark

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Unfortunately  the time zone formats available to SimpleDateFormat  Java 6 and earlier  are not ISO 8601 compliant  SimpleDateFormat understands time zone strings like  GMT 01 00  or   0100   the latter according to RFC   822   Even if Java 7 added support for time zone descriptors according to ISO 8601  SimpleDateFormat is still not able to properly parse a complete date string  as it has no support for optional parts   Reformatting your input string using regexp is certainly one possibility  but the replacement rules are not as simple as in your question    Some time zones are not full hours off UTC  so the string does not necessarily end with   00   ISO8601 allows only the number of hours to be included in the time zone  so   01  is equivalent to   01 00  ISO8601 allows the usage of  Z  to indicate UTC instead of   00 00     The easier solution is possibly to use the data type converter in JAXB  since JAXB must be able to parse ISO8601 date string according to the XML Schema specification  javax xml bind DatatypeConverter parseDateTime  2010-01-01T12 00 00Z   will give you a Calendar object and you can simply use getTime   on it  if you need a Date object   You could probably use Joda-Time as well  but I don t know why you should bother with that

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This seemed to work best for me   public static Date fromISO8601   String string          try               return new SimpleDateFormat    yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ssXXX   parse   string          catch   ParseException e             return Exceptions handle  Date class   Not a valid ISO8601   e               I needed to convert to fro JavaScript date strings to Java  I found the above works with the recommendation  There were some examples using SimpleDateFormat that were close but they did not seem to be the subset as recommended by    http   www w3 org TR NOTE-datetime  and supported by PLIST and JavaScript Strings and such which is what I needed   This seems to be the most common form of ISO8601 string out there  and a good subset    The examples they give are   1994-11-05T08 15 30-05 00 corresponds  November 5  1994  8 15 30 am  US Eastern Standard Time    1994-11-05T13 15 30Z corresponds to the same instant    I also have a fast version   final static int SHORT ISO 8601 TIME LENGTH     1994-11-05T08 15 30Z  length                                                    01234567890123456789012 final static int LONG ISO 8601 TIME LENGTH    1994-11-05T08 15 30-05 00  length       public static Date fromISO8601  String string         if  isISO8601   string              char    charArray   Reflection toCharArray   string     uses unsafe or string toCharArray if unsafe is not available         int year   CharScanner parseIntFromTo   charArray  0  4            int month   CharScanner parseIntFromTo   charArray  5  7            int day   CharScanner parseIntFromTo   charArray  8  10            int hour   CharScanner parseIntFromTo   charArray  11  13             int minute   CharScanner parseIntFromTo   charArray  14  16             int second   CharScanner parseIntFromTo   charArray  17  19             TimeZone tz             if  charArray 19      Z                   tz   TimeZone getTimeZone    GMT                else                 StringBuilder builder   new StringBuilder   9                 builder append    GMT                  builder append  charArray  19  LONG ISO 8601 TIME LENGTH - 19                String tzStr   builder toString                  tz   TimeZone getTimeZone   tzStr                          return toDate   tz  year  month  day  hour  minute  second             else           return null                  public static int parseIntFromTo   char   digitChars  int offset  int to         int num   digitChars  offset   -  0       if     offset  lt  to             num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0             if     offset  lt  to                 num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                 if     offset  lt  to                     num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                     if     offset  lt  to                         num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                         if     offset  lt  to                             num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                             if     offset  lt  to                                 num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                                 if     offset  lt  to                                     num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                                     if     offset  lt  to                                         num     num   10       digitChars  offset   -  0                                                                                                                                                                         return num      public static boolean isISO8601  String string           boolean valid   true         if  string length       SHORT ISO 8601 TIME LENGTH              valid  amp     string charAt   19        Z             else if  string length       LONG ISO 8601 TIME LENGTH              valid  amp     string charAt   19        -     string charAt   19                       valid  amp     string charAt   22                      else             return false                   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4         1 9 9 4 - 1 1 - 0 5 T 0 8   1 5   3 0 - 0 5   0 0      valid  amp     string charAt   4        -    amp  amp                   string charAt   7        -    amp  amp                   string charAt   10       T    amp  amp                   string charAt   13            amp  amp                   string charAt   16                 return valid      I have not benchmarked it  but I am guess it will be pretty fast  It seems to work       Test public void testIsoShortDate         String test     1994-11-05T08 15 30Z        Date date   Dates fromISO8601   test        Date date2   Dates fromISO8601    test         assertEquals date2 toString     date toString           puts  date       Test public void testIsoLongDate         String test     1994-11-05T08 11 22-05 00        Date date   Dates fromISO8601   test        Date date2   Dates fromISO8601    test         assertEquals date2 toString     date toString           puts  date

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Apache Jackrabbit uses the ISO 8601 format for persisting dates  and there is a helper class to parse them   org apache jackrabbit util ISO8601  Comes with jackrabbit-jcr-commons

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I had a similar need  I needed to be able to parse any date ISO8601 compliant without knowing the exact format in advance  and I wanted a lightweight solution which would also work on Android   When I googled my needs I stumbled upon this question  and noticed that AFAIU  no answer completely fit my needs  So I developed jISO8601  and pushed it on maven central   Just add in you pom xml    lt dependency gt     lt groupId gt fr turri lt  groupId gt     lt artifactId gt jISO8601 lt  artifactId gt     lt version gt 0 2 lt  version gt   lt  dependency gt    and then you re good to go   import fr turri jiso8601        Calendar cal   Iso8601Deserializer toCalendar  1985-03-04    Date date   Iso8601Deserializer toDate  1985-03-04T12 34 56Z      Hopes it help

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java time  The java time API  built into Java 8 and later   makes this a little easier   If you know the input is in UTC  such as the Z  for Zulu  on the end  the Instant class can parse   java util Date date   Date from  Instant parse   2014-12-12T10 39 40Z        If your input may be another offset-from-UTC values rather than UTC indicated by the Z  Zulu  on the end  use the OffsetDateTime class to parse    OffsetDateTime odt   OffsetDateTime parse   2010-01-01T12 00 00 01 00       Then extract an Instant  and  convert to a java util Date by calling from   Instant instant   odt toInstant        Instant is always in UTC  java util Date date   java util Date from  instant

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After I searched a lot to convert ISO8601 to date I suddenly found a java class that is ISO8601Util java and this was part of com google gson internal bind util  So you can use it to convert dates  ISO8601Utils parse  quot 2010-01-01T12 00 00Z quot    ParsePosition 0    and you can simply use this kotlin extension function fun String getDateFromString     Date    ISO8601Utils parse this    ParsePosition 0

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SimpleDateFormat for JAVA 1 7 has a cool pattern for ISO 8601 format   Class SimpleDateFormat  Here is what I did   Date d   new SimpleDateFormat   yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ss SSSZ            Locale ENGLISH  format System currentTimeMillis

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The way that is blessed by Java 7 documentation   DateFormat df1   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ss SSSZ    String string1    2001-07-04T12 08 56 235-0700   Date result1   df1 parse string1    DateFormat df2   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ss SSSXXX    String string2    2001-07-04T12 08 56 235-07 00   Date result2   df2 parse string2     You can find more examples in section Examples at SimpleDateFormat javadoc   UPD 02 13 2020  There is a completely new way to do this in Java 8

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I am surprised that not even one java library supports all ISO 8601 date formats as per https   en wikipedia org wiki ISO 8601  Joda DateTime was supporting most of them  but not all and hence I added custom logic to handle all of them  Here is my implementation    x000D   x000D  import java text ParseException  x000D  import java util Date  x000D   x000D  import org apache commons lang3 time DateUtils  x000D  import org joda time DateTime  x000D   x000D  public class ISO8601DateUtils   x000D    x000D       x000D      It parses all the date time formats from https   en wikipedia org wiki ISO 8601 and returns Joda DateTime  x000D      Zoda DateTime does not support dates of format 20190531T160233Z  and hence added custom logic to handle this using SimpleDateFormat  x000D       param dateTimeString ISO 8601 date time string x000D       return x000D       x000D   public static DateTime parse String dateTimeString    x000D    try   x000D     return new DateTime  dateTimeString    x000D      catch Exception e    x000D     try   x000D      Date dateTime   DateUtils parseDate dateTimeString  JODA NOT SUPPORTED ISO DATES   x000D      return new DateTime dateTime getTime     x000D       catch  ParseException e1    x000D      throw new RuntimeException String format  Date  s could not be parsed to ISO date   dateTimeString    x000D       x000D      x000D     x000D     x000D     private static String   JODA NOT SUPPORTED ISO DATES   new String     x000D        upto millis x000D      yyyyMMdd T HHmmssSSS Z    x000D      yyyyMMdd T HHmmssSSSZ   x000D      yyyyMMdd T HHmmssSSSXXX   x000D      x000D      yyyy-MM-dd T HHmmssSSS Z    x000D      yyyy-MM-dd T HHmmssSSSZ   x000D      yyyy-MM-dd T HHmmssSSSXXX   x000D      x000D        upto seconds x000D      yyyyMMdd T HHmmss Z    x000D      yyyyMMdd T HHmmssZ   x000D      yyyyMMdd T HHmmssXXX   x000D      x000D      yyyy-MM-dd T HHmmss Z     x000D      yyyy-MM-dd T HHmmssZ   x000D      yyyy-MM-dd T HHmmssXXX   x000D      x000D        upto minutes x000D      yyyyMMdd T HHmm Z    x000D      yyyyMMdd T HHmmZ   x000D      yyyyMMdd T HHmmXXX   x000D   x000D      yyyy-MM-dd T HHmm Z    x000D      yyyy-MM-dd T HHmmZ   x000D      yyyy-MM-dd T HHmmXXX   x000D      x000D       upto hours is already supported by Joda DateTime x000D      x000D    x000D   x000D   x000D

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I faced the same problem and solved it by the following code     public static Calendar getCalendarFromISO String datestring        Calendar calendar   Calendar getInstance TimeZone getDefault    Locale getDefault          SimpleDateFormat dateformat   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ss SSS Z    Locale getDefault         try           Date date   dateformat parse datestring           date setHours date getHours   - 1           calendar setTime date            String test   dateformat format calendar getTime             Log e  TEST TIME   test          catch  ParseException e            e printStackTrace               return calendar      Earlier I was using SimpleDateFormat dateformat   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ss SSSZ   Locale getDefault      But later i found the main cause of the exception was the yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ss SSSZ    So i used   SimpleDateFormat dateformat   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ss SSS Z    Locale getDefault       It worked fine for me

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tl dr OffsetDateTime parse    quot 2010-01-01T12 00 00 01 00 quot     Using java time The new java time package in Java 8 and later was inspired by Joda-Time  The OffsetDateTime class represents a moment on the timeline with an offset-from-UTC but not a time zone  OffsetDateTime odt   OffsetDateTime parse    quot 2010-01-01T12 00 00 01 00 quot      Calling toString generates a string in standard ISO 8601 format   2010-01-01T12 00 01 00  To see the same value through the lens of UTC  extract an Instant or adjust the offset from  01 00 to 00 00  Instant instant   odt toInstant          or    OffsetDateTime odtUtc   odt withOffsetSameInstant  ZoneOffset UTC     Adjust into a time zone if desired  A time zone is a history of offset-from-UTC values for a region  with a set of rules for handling anomalies such as Daylight Saving Time  DST   So apply a time zone rather than a mere offset whenever possible  ZonedDateTime zonedDateTimeMontr  al   odt atZoneSameInstant  ZoneId of   quot America Montreal quot         About java time The java time framework is built into Java 8 and later  These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java util Date  Calendar   amp  SimpleDateFormat  The Joda-Time project  now in maintenance mode  advises migration to the java time classes  To learn more  see the Oracle Tutorial  And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations  Specification is JSR 310  You may exchange java time objects directly with your database  Use a JDBC driver compliant with JDBC 4 2 or later  No need for strings  no need for java sql   classes  Where to obtain the java time classes   Java SE 8  Java SE 9  Java SE 10  and later Built-in  Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation  Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes  Java SE 6 and Java SE 7 Much of the java time functionality is back-ported to Java 6  amp  7 in ThreeTen-Backport  Android Later versions of Android bundle implementations of the java time classes  For earlier Android   lt 26   the ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport  mentioned above   See How to use ThreeTenABP     With the help of Desugaring Some Java 8 features including java time are supported for even earlier versions of android   The ThreeTen-Extra project extends java time with additional classes  This project is a proving ground for possible future additions to java time  You may find some useful classes here such as Interval  YearWeek  YearQuarter  and more

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The workaround for Java 7  is using SimpleDateFormat  DateFormat df   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ss SSSX   Locale US      This code can parse ISO8601 format like      2017-05-17T06 01 43 785Z 2017-05-13T02 58 21 391 01 00   But on Java6  SimpleDateFormat doesn t understand X character and will throw IllegalArgumentException  Unknown pattern character  X  We need to normalize ISO8601 date to the format readable in Java 6 with SimpleDateFormat   public static Date iso8601Format String formattedDate  throws ParseException       try           DateFormat df   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ss SSSX   Locale US           return df parse formattedDate         catch  IllegalArgumentException ex               error happen in Java 6  Unknown pattern character  X          if  formattedDate endsWith  Z    formattedDate   formattedDate replace  Z     0000            else formattedDate   formattedDate replaceAll     -   d  d     d  d   s       1 2            DateFormat df1   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ss SSSZ   Locale US           return df1 parse formattedDate             Method above to replace  Z with  0000  or   01 00 with  0100  when error occurs in Java 6  you can detect Java version and replace try catch with if statement

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Also you can use the following class -   org springframework extensions surf util ISO8601DateFormat   Date date   ISO8601DateFormat parse  date in iso8601      Link to the Java Doc - Hierarchy For Package org springframework extensions surf maven plugin util

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The Jackson-databind library also has ISO8601DateFormat class that does that  actual implementation in ISO8601Utils   ISO8601DateFormat df   new ISO8601DateFormat    Date d   df parse  2010-07-28T22 25 51Z

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Use string like  LocalDate parse   String  data get  d iso8601    DateTimeFormatter ISO DATE

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Another very simple way to parse ISO8601 timestamps is to use  org apache commons lang time DateUtils   import static org junit Assert assertEquals   import java text ParseException  import java util Date  import org apache commons lang time DateUtils  import org junit Test   public class ISO8601TimestampFormatTest      Test   public void parse   throws ParseException       Date date   DateUtils parseDate  2010-01-01T12 00 00 01 00   new String     yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ssZZ          assertEquals  Fri Jan 01 12 00 00 CET 2010   date toString

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java time  Note that in Java 8  you can use the java time ZonedDateTime class and its static parse CharSequence text  method

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Base Function Courtesy    wrygiel    This function can convert ISO8601 format to Java Date which can handle the offset values  As per the definition of ISO 8601 the offset can be mentioned in different formats      hh   mm     hh  mm     hh   Eg    18 30Z    22 30 04    1130-0700   and  15 00-03 30  all mean the same time  - 06 30PM UTC   This class has static methods to convert    ISO8601 string to Date Local TimeZone  object Date to ISO8601 string Daylight Saving is automatically calc   Sample ISO8601 Strings            2013-06-25T14 00 00Z             2013-06-25T140000Z             2013-06-25T14 00 00 04             2013-06-25T14 00 00 0400             2013-06-25T140000 0400             2013-06-25T14 00 00-04             2013-06-25T14 00 00-0400             2013-06-25T140000-0400       public class ISO8601DateFormatter    private static final DateFormat DATE FORMAT 1   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ssZ    private static final DateFormat DATE FORMAT 2   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HHmmssZ    private static final String UTC PLUS        private static final String UTC MINUS    -    public static Date toDate String iso8601string  throws ParseException       iso8601string   iso8601string trim        if iso8601string toUpperCase   indexOf  Z   gt 0           iso8601string   iso8601string toUpperCase   replace  Z     0000         else if   iso8601string indexOf UTC PLUS   gt 0            iso8601string   replaceColon iso8601string  iso8601string indexOf UTC PLUS            iso8601string   appendZeros iso8601string  iso8601string indexOf UTC PLUS   UTC PLUS        else if   iso8601string indexOf UTC MINUS   gt 0            iso8601string   replaceColon iso8601string  iso8601string indexOf UTC MINUS            iso8601string   appendZeros iso8601string  iso8601string indexOf UTC MINUS   UTC MINUS              Date date   null      if iso8601string contains               date   DATE FORMAT 1 parse iso8601string       else          date   DATE FORMAT 2 parse iso8601string             return date     public static String toISO8601String Date date       return DATE FORMAT 1 format date      private static String replaceColon String sourceStr  int offsetIndex       if sourceStr substring offsetIndex  contains               return sourceStr substring 0  offsetIndex    sourceStr substring offsetIndex  replace               return sourceStr     private static String appendZeros String sourceStr  int offsetIndex  String offsetChar       if  sourceStr length  -1 -sourceStr indexOf offsetChar offsetIndex  lt  2          return sourceStr    00       return sourceStr

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As others have mentioned Android does not have a good way to support parsing formatting ISO 8601 dates using classes included in the SDK   I have written this code multiple times so I finally created a Gist that includes a DateUtils class that supports formatting and parsing ISO 8601 and RFC 1123 dates   The Gist also includes a test case showing what it supports   https   gist github com mraccola 702330625fad8eebe7d3

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Okay  this question is already answered  but I ll drop my answer anyway  It might help someone   I ve been looking for a solution for Android  API 7     Joda was out of the question - it is huge and suffers from slow initialization  It also seemed a major overkill for that particular purpose  Answers involving javax xml won t work on Android API 7    Ended up implementing this simple class  It covers only the most common form of ISO 8601 strings  but this should be enough in some cases  when you re quite sure that the input will be in this format    import java text ParseException  import java text SimpleDateFormat  import java util Calendar  import java util Date  import java util GregorianCalendar          Helper class for handling a most common subset of ISO 8601 strings     in the following format   2008-03-01T13 00 00 01 00    It supports    parsing the  Z  timezone  but many other less-used features are    missing      public final class ISO8601           Transform Calendar to ISO 8601 string         public static String fromCalendar final Calendar calendar            Date date   calendar getTime            String formatted   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ssZ                format date           return formatted substring 0  22          formatted substring 22                  Get current date and time formatted as ISO 8601 string         public static String now             return fromCalendar GregorianCalendar getInstance                    Transform ISO 8601 string to Calendar         public static Calendar toCalendar final String iso8601string              throws ParseException           Calendar calendar   GregorianCalendar getInstance            String s   iso8601string replace  Z     00 00            try               s   s substring 0  22    s substring 23       to get rid of the               catch  IndexOutOfBoundsException e                throw new ParseException  Invalid length   0                     Date date   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ssZ   parse s           calendar setTime date           return calendar            Performance note  I instantiate new SimpleDateFormat every time as means to avoid a bug in Android 2 1  If you re as astonished as I was  see this riddle  For other Java engines  you may cache the instance in a private static field  using ThreadLocal  to be thread safe

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Java has a dozen different ways to parse a date-time  as the excellent answers here demonstrate  But somewhat amazingly  none of Java s time classes fully implement ISO 8601   With Java 8  I d recommend   ZonedDateTime zp   ZonedDateTime parse string   Date date   Date from zp toInstant       That will handle examples both in UTC and with an offset  like  2017-09-13T10 36 40Z  or  2017-09-13T10 36 40 01 00   It will do for most use cases   But it won t handle examples like  2017-09-13T10 36 40 01   which is a valid ISO 8601 date-time  It also won t handle date only  e g   2017-09-13    If you have to handle those  I d suggest using a regex first to sniff the syntax   There s a nice list of ISO 8601 examples here with lots of corner cases  https   www myintervals com blog 2009 05 20 iso-8601-date-validation-that-doesnt-suck  I m not aware of any Java class that could cope with all of them

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A little test that shows how to parse a date in ISO8601 and that LocalDateTime does not handle DSTs     Test     public void shouldHandleDaylightSavingTimes   throws ParseException              ISO8601 UTC date format         SimpleDateFormat utcFormat   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ss SSSXXX                1 hour of difference between 2 dates in UTC happening at the Daylight Saving Time         Date d1   utcFormat parse  2019-10-27T00 30 00 000Z            Date d2   utcFormat parse  2019-10-27T01 30 00 000Z               Date 2 is before date 2         Assert assertTrue d1 getTime    lt  d2 getTime                And there is 1 hour difference between the 2 dates         Assert assertEquals 1000 60 60  d2 getTime   - d1 getTime                Print the dates in local time         SimpleDateFormat localFormat   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd HH mm z Z   Locale forLanguageTag  fr CH             localFormat setTimeZone TimeZone getTimeZone  Europe Zurich                Both dates are at 02h30 local time  because of DST   but one is CEST  0200 and the other CET  0100  clock goes backwards          Assert assertEquals  2019-10-27 02 30 CEST  0200   localFormat format d1            Assert assertEquals  2019-10-27 02 30 CET  0100   localFormat format d2               Small test that shows that LocalDateTime does not handle DST  and should not be used for storing timeseries data          LocalDateTime ld1   LocalDateTime ofInstant d1 toInstant    ZoneId of  Europe Zurich             LocalDateTime ld2   LocalDateTime ofInstant d2 toInstant    ZoneId of  Europe Zurich                Note that a localdatetime does not handle DST  therefore the 2 dates are the same         Assert assertEquals ld1  ld2              They both have the following local values         Assert assertEquals 2019  ld1 getYear             Assert assertEquals 27  ld1 getDayOfMonth             Assert assertEquals 10  ld1 getMonthValue             Assert assertEquals 2  ld1 getHour             Assert assertEquals 30  ld1 getMinute             Assert assertEquals 0  ld1 getSecond

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Do it like this   public static void main String   args  throws ParseException        String dateStr    2016-10-19T14 15 36 08 00       Date date   javax xml bind DatatypeConverter parseDateTime dateStr  getTime         System out println date        Here is the output   Wed Oct 19 15 15 36 CST 2016

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Starting from Java 8  there is a completely new officially supported way to do this       String s    2020-02-13T18 51 09 840Z       TemporalAccessor ta   DateTimeFormatter ISO INSTANT parse s       Instant i   Instant from ta       Date d   Date from i

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I think we should use   DateFormat format   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ss Z      for Date 2010-01-01T12 00 00Z

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For Java version 7  You can follow Oracle documentation   http   docs oracle com javase 7 docs api java text SimpleDateFormat html  X - is used for ISO 8601 time zone  TimeZone tz   TimeZone getTimeZone  UTC    DateFormat df   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ssX    df setTimeZone tz   String nowAsISO   df format new Date      System out println nowAsISO    DateFormat df1   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd T HH mm ssX      nowAsISO    2013-05-31T00 00 00Z   Date finalResult   df1 parse nowAsISO    System out println finalResult

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