Format LocalDateTime with Timezone in Java8

Question

I have the this simple code:

DateTimeFormatter FORMATTER = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyyMMdd HH:mm:ss.SSSSSS Z");
LocalDateTime.now().format(FORMATTER)

Then I will get following exception:

java.time.temporal.UnsupportedTemporalTypeException: Unsupported field: OffsetSeconds
at java.time.LocalDate.get0(LocalDate.java:680)
at java.time.LocalDate.getLong(LocalDate.java:659)
at java.time.LocalDateTime.getLong(LocalDateTime.java:720)
at java.time.format.DateTimePrintContext.getValue(DateTimePrintContext.java:298)
at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatterBuilder$OffsetIdPrinterParser.format(DateTimeFormatterBuilder.java:3315)
at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatterBuilder$CompositePrinterParser.format(DateTimeFormatterBuilder.java:2182)
at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.formatTo(DateTimeFormatter.java:1745)
at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.format(DateTimeFormatter.java:1719)
at java.time.LocalDateTime.format(LocalDateTime.java:1746)

How to resolve this issue?

Answer 1

LocalDateTime is a date-time without a time-zone. You specified the time zone offset format symbol in the format, however, LocalDateTime doesn't have such information. That's why the error occured.

If you want time-zone information, you should use ZonedDateTime.

DateTimeFormatter FORMATTER = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyyMMdd HH:mm:ss.SSSSSS Z");
ZonedDateTime.now().format(FORMATTER);
=> "20140829 14:12:22.122000 +09"