Can anybody let me know about the date formats available in SimpleDateFormat class.
I have gone through api but could not find a satisfactory answer.Any help is highly appreciated.
Date and time formats are well described below
SimpleDateFormat (Java Platform SE 7) - Date and Time Patterns
There could be n
Number of formats you can possibly make. ex - dd/MM/yyyy
or YYYY-'W'ww-u
or you can mix and match the letters to achieve your required pattern. Pattern letters are as follow.
G
- Era designator (AD)y
- Year (1996; 96)Y
- Week Year (2009; 09)M
- Month in year (July; Jul; 07)w
- Week in year (27)W
- Week in month (2)D
- Day in year (189)d
- Day in month (10)F
- Day of week in month (2)E
- Day name in week (Tuesday; Tue)u
- Day number of week (1 = Monday, ..., 7 = Sunday)a
- AM/PM markerH
- Hour in day (0-23)k
- Hour in day (1-24)K
- Hour in am/pm (0-11)h
- Hour in am/pm (1-12)m
- Minute in hour (30)s
- Second in minute (55)S
- Millisecond (978)z
- General time zone (Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00)Z
- RFC 822 time zone (-0800)X
- ISO 8601 time zone (-08; -0800; -08:00)To parse:
2000-01-23T04:56:07.000+0000
Use:
new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");