Convert String to Date in java - Time zone

Question

I have a String, 2013-10-07T23:59:51.205-07:00, want to convert this to Java date object. I am getting parsing error.

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Answer 1

Use this trick to parse ISO8601 datetime format. I admit have not tried this with millisecond part within a string value maybe it gives you an extra headache. This works for Java6.

import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
Calendar cal = DatatypeConverter.parseDateTime(strDatetime);

If am remembering correct cal instance may not use a system-default timezone. Its initialized to the origin string value timezone. If you want instance to use system timezone you can do this conversion.

   long ts = cal.getTimeInMillis();
   cal = Calendar.getInstance();
   cal.setTimeInMillis(ts);