how to get user defined timezone using XMLGregorianCalendar.

[rajashree loganayagi]

Hi,

I have a string 'date' with a value "2011-08-10T00:00:00-06:00"(Format:yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss+timezone). My requirement is to parse the string into the XMLGregorianCalendar where i cannot able to parse the timezone values(-06:00). It throws "NumberFormatException".

Please suggest any solution.

[Jesper de Jong]

How are you doing the parsing? Note that SimpleDateFormat does not support the ISO 8601 format that's the standard for XML properly.

This works:

String text = "2011-08-10T00:00:00-06:00";
XMLGregorianCalendar cal = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(text);

[rajashree loganayagi]

I done the parsing using SimpleDateFormat. After using your code it works fine now.

Thank you.