Optional parts in SimpleDateFormat

Question

I\'m reading in date strings that could be with or without a time zone adjustment: yyyyMMddHHmmssz or yyyyMMddHHmmss. When a string is missing a z

Answer 1

You can create two different SimpleDateFormats like

 public PWMDateTimeFormatter(String aPatternStr)
    {
        _formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern(aPatternStr);
    }



    public PWMDateTimeFormatter(String aPatternStr, TimeZone aZone)
    {
        _formatter =   DateTimeFormat.forPattern(aPatternStr).withZone(XXDateTime._getTimeZone(aZone));
    }