Class DateTimeFormats

java.lang.Object
com.google.mu.time.DateTimeFormats
public final class DateTimeFormats extends Object
Utility class with one-stop Instant and ZonedDateTime parsing for all common date time strings, without needing a DateTimeFormatter: 

 Instant timestamp = DateTimeFormats.parseToInstant(timestampString);
 ZonedDateTime dateTime = DateTimeFormats.parseZonedDateTime(dateTimeString);

For more flexible use cases, where you might want to reuse or conform to a format known at compile-time, the DateTimeFormatter can be inferred from an example date/time/datetime string (similar to the golang time library style).

For example: 


 private static final DateTimeFormatter DATE_TIME_FORMATTER =
     DateTimeFormats.formatOf("2023-12-09 10:00:00.12345 America/Los_Angeles");
 private static final DateTimeFormatter USING_ZONE_OFFSET =
     DateTimeFormats.formatOf("2023-12-09 10:00:00+08:00");
 private static final DateTimeFormatter ISO_FORMATTER =
     DateTimeFormats.formatOf("2023-12-09T10:00:00.12345[Europe/Paris]");
 private static final DateTimeFormatter WITH_DAY_OF_WEEK =
     DateTimeFormats.formatOf("2023/12/09 Sat 10:00+08:00");

Most ISO 8601 formats are supported, except BASIC_ISO_DATE, ISO_WEEK_DATE ('2012-W48-6') and ISO_ORDINAL_DATE ('2012-337'), which are rarely used.

For the date part of custom patterns, ambiguous examples like 10/12/2024 or 1/2/yyyy are not supported. You should use unambiguous examples like 10/30/2024 (which results in "MM/dd/yyyy"} or 30/1/2024 (which results in "dd/M/yyyy}. In addition, localized month names such as Jan or March are used, all natural orders (year month day, month day year or day month year) are supported.

For the time part of custom patterns, only HH:mm, HH:mm:ss and HH:mm:ss.S variants are supported (the S can be 1 to 9 digits). AM/PM and 12-hour numbers are not supported. Though you can explicitly specify them together with placeholders (see below).

If the variant of the date time pattern you need exceeds the out-of-box support, you can explicitly mix the DateTimeFormatter specifiers with example placeholders (between a pair of pointy brackets) to be translated. s

For example the following code uses the dd, MM and yyyy specifiers as is but translates the Tue and America/New_York example snippets into E and VV specifiers respectively. It will then parse and format to datetime strings like "Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:30:59.123 Europe/Paris". 


 private static final DateTimeFormatter FORMATTER =
     formatOf("<Tue>, dd MM yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS <America/New_York>");

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Since:
7.1