simpledateformat problem

[John Schretz]

  
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");
String date = sdf.format(new Date());
 

I am having a problem formatting the above code

i need the date to look like this:
2009-05-22T00:16:51-04:00

But it comes out like this:
2009-05-22T00:16:51-0400

Is there a pattern in SDF to include the colon?

thanks
john

[Birla Murugesan]

Jhon,

There is no pattern available for output which you needed.

In your code :SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");

the capital Z denotes,for formatting you have been used RFC 822 time zone format.

so if go for the Pacific Standard Time ie use small letter 'z' instead of capital

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssz");

you can get the output like this 2009-05-22T00:16:51GMT04:00

which is moreover what you expected.

Birla

[John Schretz]

Birla Murugesan wrote:Jhon,

There is no pattern available for output which you needed.

In your code :SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");

the capital Z denotes,for formatting you have been used RFC 822 time zone format.

so if go for the Pacific Standard Time ie use small letter 'z' instead of capital

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssz");

you can get the output like this 2009-05-22T00:16:51GMT04:00

which is moreover what you expected.

Birla

Unfortunately i need this exact date format 2009-05-22T00:16:51-04:00
amazon only accepts that format.
So i would have to manually add the colon?