Java date offset format issue?

Question

My date format is yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ, which is producing the date :

2013-10-08T12:14:39.721+0100

But I need the date to be :

2013-10-08T12:14:39.721+01:00

what date format will generate the offset with a colon?

Answer 1

You can use this format

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX");

Have a look at the doc for more info.

P.S:- As my friend @Thomas mentioned, this will work only with Java 7 and above.

Answer 2

If you want to implement using SimpleDateFormat you can use R.J. solution which will work for JDK 7. You can also implement the same using Joda time as below

DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZZ");
String str = fmt.print(dt);
System.out.println(str);

which outputs,

2013-10-08T20:36:19.802+09:00