com.metamatrix.core.util
Class DateUtil

java.lang.Object
  com.metamatrix.core.util.DateUtil

public final class DateUtil
extends java.lang.Object

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	COMPLETE_FORMAT
static java.lang.String	TIMESTAMP_FORMAT

Constructor Summary

DateUtil()

Method Summary

static java.util.Date	convertStringToDate(java.lang.String dateString) Method to convert a string in the standard MetaMatrix pattern into a Date object.
static java.util.Date	getCurrentDate()
static java.lang.String	getCurrentDateAsString()
static java.util.Date	getDate(long timestamp)
static java.lang.String	getDateAsString(java.util.Date timestamp)
static java.lang.String	getDateAsString(long timestamp)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

COMPLETE_FORMAT

public static final java.lang.String COMPLETE_FORMAT

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Constant Field Values

TIMESTAMP_FORMAT

public static final java.lang.String TIMESTAMP_FORMAT

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

DateUtil

public DateUtil()

Method Detail

convertStringToDate

public static final java.util.Date convertStringToDate(java.lang.String dateString)
                                                throws java.text.ParseException

Method to convert a string in the standard MetaMatrix pattern into a Date object. The pattern is yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS-ZZ:zz where

 Symbol   Meaning                 Presentation        Example
 ------   -------                 ------------        -------
 y        year                    (Number)            1996
 M        month in year           (Number)            07
 d        day in month            (Number)            10
 h        hour in am/pm (1~12)    (Number)            12
 H        hour in day (0~23)      (Number)            0
 m        minute in hour          (Number)            30
 s        second in minute        (Number)            55
 S        millisecond             (Number)            978
 Z        zone offset hours       (Number)            6
 z        zone offset minutes     (Number)            30
 '        escape for text         (Delimiter)
 ''       single quote            (Literal)           '
 

The milliseconds, zone hour, and zone minutes are not required for parsing.

Parameters:

dateString - the stringified date in the format described above

Returns:

the Date instance

Throws:

java.text.ParseException - if the string is not of the expected format

getDateAsString

public static final java.lang.String getDateAsString(java.util.Date timestamp)

getDateAsString

public static final java.lang.String getDateAsString(long timestamp)

getDate

public static final java.util.Date getDate(long timestamp)

getCurrentDateAsString

public static final java.lang.String getCurrentDateAsString()

getCurrentDate

public static final java.util.Date getCurrentDate()