public class DateTimeFormat extends DateTimeFormat
| Symbol | Meaning | Presentation | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
G |
era designator | Text | AD |
y |
year | Number | 1996 |
L |
standalone month in year | Text or Number | July (or) 07 |
M |
month in year | Text or Number | July (or) 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 |
fractional second | Number | 978 |
E |
day of week | Text | Tuesday |
c |
standalone day of week | Text | Tuesday |
a |
am/pm marker | Text | PM |
k |
hour in day (1-24) | Number | 24 |
K |
hour in am/pm (0-11) | Number | 0 |
z |
time zone | Text | Pacific Standard Time(see comment) |
Z |
time zone (RFC 822) | Text | -0800(See comment) |
v |
time zone id | Text | America/Los_Angeles(See comment) |
' |
escape for text | Delimiter | 'Date=' |
'' |
single quote | Literal | 'o''clock' |
The number of pattern letters influences the format, as follows:
"EEEE" produces
"Monday", "EEE" produces "Mon")"m" produces "6", "mm"
produces "06"). Year is handled specially; that is, if the count
of 'y' is 2, the Year will be truncated to 2 digits. (e.g., if
"yyyy" produces "1997", "yy" produces
"97".) Unlike other fields, fractional seconds are padded on the
right with zero."M"
produces "1", "MM" produces "01",
"MMM" produces "Jan", and "MMMM"
produces "January". Some pattern letters also treat a count
of 5 specially, meaning a single-letter abbreviation: L,
M, E, and c.
Any characters in the pattern that are not in the ranges of ['a
'..'z'] and ['A'..'Z'] will be treated
as quoted text. For instance, characters like ':', '
.', ' ' (space), '#' and '
@' will appear in the resulting time text even they are not
embraced within single quotes.
[Time Zone Handling] Web browsers don't provide all the information we need for proper time zone formating -- so GWT has a copy of the required data, for your convenience. For simpler cases, one can also use a fallback implementation that only keeps track of the current timezone offset. These two approaches are called, respectively, Common TimeZones and Simple TimeZones, although both are implemented with the same TimeZone class. "TimeZone createTimeZone(String timezoneData)" returns a Common TimeZone object, and "TimeZone createTimeZone(int timeZoneOffsetInMinutes)" returns a Simple TimeZone object. The one provided by OS fall into to Simple TimeZone category. For formatting purpose, following table shows the behavior of GWT DateTimeFormat.
| Pattern | Common TimeZone | Simple TimeZone |
|---|---|---|
| z, zz, zzz | PDT | UTC-7 |
| zzzz | Pacific Daylight Time | UTC-7 |
| Z, ZZ | -0700 | -0700 |
| ZZZ | -07:00 | -07:00 |
| ZZZZ | GMT-07:00 | GMT-07:00 |
| v, vv, vvv, vvvv | America/Los_Angeles | Etc/GMT+7 |
The pattern does not need to specify every field. If the year, month, or day is missing from the pattern, the corresponding value will be taken from the current date. If the month is specified but the day is not, the day will be constrained to the last day within the specified month. If the hour, minute, or second is missing, the value defaults to zero.
As with formatting (described above), the count of pattern letters determines the parsing behavior.
Although the current pattern specification doesn't not specify behavior for all letters, it may in the future. It is strongly discouraged to use unspecified letters as literal text without quoting them.
[Note on TimeZone] The time zone support for parsing is limited. Only standard GMT and RFC format are supported. Time zone specification using time zone id (like America/Los_Angeles), time zone names (like PST, Pacific Standard Time) are not supported. Normally, it is too much a burden for a client application to load all the time zone symbols. And in almost all those cases, it is a better choice to do such parsing on server side through certain RPC mechanism. This decision is based on particular use cases we have studied; in principle, it could be changed in future versions.
| Pattern | Formatted Text |
|---|---|
"yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss vvvv" |
1996.07.10 AD at 15:08:56 America/Los_Angeles |
"EEE, MMM d, ''yy" |
Wed, July 10, '96 |
"h:mm a" |
12:08 PM |
"hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz" |
12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time |
"K:mm a, vvvv" |
0:00 PM, America/Los_Angeles |
"yyyyy.MMMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa" |
01996.July.10 AD 12:08 PM |
When parsing a date string using the abbreviated year pattern (
"yy"), the parser must interpret the abbreviated year relative
to some century. It does this by adjusting dates to be within 80 years before
and 20 years after the time the parser instance is created. For example,
using a pattern of "MM/dd/yy" and a DateTimeFormat
object created on Jan 1, 1997, the string "01/11/12" would be
interpreted as Jan 11, 2012 while the string "05/04/64" would be
interpreted as May 4, 1964. During parsing, only strings consisting of
exactly two digits, as defined by Character.isDigit(char),
will be parsed into the default century. If the year pattern does not have
exactly two 'y' characters, the year is interpreted literally, regardless of
the number of digits. For example, using the pattern
"MM/dd/yyyy", "01/11/12" parses to Jan 11, 12 A.D.
When numeric fields abut one another directly, with no intervening delimiter characters, they constitute a run of abutting numeric fields. Such runs are parsed specially. For example, the format "HHmmss" parses the input text "123456" to 12:34:56, parses the input text "12345" to 1:23:45, and fails to parse "1234". In other words, the leftmost field of the run is flexible, while the others keep a fixed width. If the parse fails anywhere in the run, then the leftmost field is shortened by one character, and the entire run is parsed again. This is repeated until either the parse succeeds or the leftmost field is one character in length. If the parse still fails at that point, the parse of the run fails.
In the current implementation, timezone parsing only supports
GMT:hhmm, GMT:+hhmm, and GMT:-hhmm.
public class DateTimeFormatExample implements EntryPoint {
public void onModuleLoad() {
Date today = new Date();
// prints Tue Dec 18 12:01:26 GMT-500 2007 in the default locale.
GWT.log(today.toString());
// prints 12/18/07 in the default locale
GWT.log(DateTimeFormat.getShortDateFormat().format(today));
// prints December 18, 2007 in the default locale
GWT.log(DateTimeFormat.getLongDateFormat().format(today));
// prints 12:01 PM in the default locale
GWT.log(DateTimeFormat.getShortTimeFormat().format(today));
// prints 12:01:26 PM GMT-05:00 in the default locale
GWT.log(DateTimeFormat.getLongTimeFormat().format(today));
// prints Dec 18, 2007 12:01:26 PM in the default locale
GWT.log(DateTimeFormat.getMediumDateTimeFormat().format(today));
// A custom date format
DateTimeFormat fmt = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("EEEE, MMMM dd, yyyy");
// prints Monday, December 17, 2007 in the default locale
GWT.log(fmt.format(today));
}
}
DateTimeFormat instead| Modifier and Type | Class and Description |
|---|---|
static class |
DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat
Predefined date/time formats -- see
CustomDateTimeFormat if you
need some format that isn't supplied here. |
ISO8601_PATTERN, RFC2822_PATTERN| Modifier | Constructor and Description |
|---|---|
protected |
DateTimeFormat(java.lang.String pattern)
Constructs a format object using the specified pattern and the date time
constants for the default locale.
|
protected |
DateTimeFormat(java.lang.String pattern,
DateTimeConstants dateTimeConstants)
Deprecated.
|
protected |
DateTimeFormat(java.lang.String pattern,
DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi)
Constructs a format object using the specified pattern and user-supplied
date time constants.
|
createTimeZone, format, format, getPattern, parse, parse, parseStrict, parseStrictprotected DateTimeFormat(java.lang.String pattern)
pattern - string pattern specification@Deprecated
protected DateTimeFormat(java.lang.String pattern,
DateTimeConstants dateTimeConstants)
DateTimeFormat(String, DateTimeFormatInfo)pattern - string pattern specificationdateTimeConstants - locale specific symbol collectionprotected DateTimeFormat(java.lang.String pattern,
DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi)
pattern - string pattern specificationdtfi - DateTimeFormatInfo instance to usepublic static DateTimeFormat getFormat(DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat predef)
See CustomDateTimeFormat if you need a localized format that is
not supported here.
predef - DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat describing desired formatpublic static DateTimeFormat getFormat(java.lang.String pattern)
DateTimeFormat object and reuse it
rather than calling this method repeatedly.
Note that the pattern supplied is used as-is -- for example, if you
supply "MM/dd/yyyy" as the pattern, that is the order you will get the
fields, even in locales where the order is different. It is recommended to
use getFormat(PredefinedFormat) instead -- if you use this method,
you are taking responsibility for localizing the patterns yourself.
pattern - string to specify how the date should be formattedDateTimeFormat object that can be used for format or
parse date/time values matching the specified patternjava.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the specified pattern could not be
parsed@Deprecated public static DateTimeFormat getFullDateFormat()
getFormat(PredefinedFormat) with
DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat.DATE_FULL instead@Deprecated public static DateTimeFormat getFullDateTimeFormat()
getFormat(PredefinedFormat) with
DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat.DATE_TIME_FULL instead@Deprecated public static DateTimeFormat getFullTimeFormat()
getFormat(PredefinedFormat) with
DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat.TIME_FULL instead@Deprecated public static DateTimeFormat getLongDateFormat()
getFormat(PredefinedFormat) with
DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat.DATE_LONG instead@Deprecated public static DateTimeFormat getLongDateTimeFormat()
getFormat(PredefinedFormat) with
DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat.DATE_TIME_LONG instead@Deprecated public static DateTimeFormat getLongTimeFormat()
getFormat(PredefinedFormat) with
DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat.TIME_LONG instead@Deprecated public static DateTimeFormat getMediumDateFormat()
getFormat(PredefinedFormat) with
DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat.DATE_MEDIUM instead@Deprecated public static DateTimeFormat getMediumDateTimeFormat()
getFormat(PredefinedFormat) with
DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat.DATE_TIME_MEDIUM instead@Deprecated public static DateTimeFormat getMediumTimeFormat()
getFormat(PredefinedFormat) with
DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat.TIME_MEDIUM instead@Deprecated public static DateTimeFormat getShortDateFormat()
getFormat(PredefinedFormat) with
DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat.DATE_SHORT instead@Deprecated public static DateTimeFormat getShortDateTimeFormat()
getFormat(PredefinedFormat) with
DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat.DATE_TIME_SHORT instead@Deprecated public static DateTimeFormat getShortTimeFormat()
getFormat(PredefinedFormat) with
DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat.TIME_SHORT insteadprotected static DateTimeFormat getFormat(java.lang.String pattern, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi)
pattern - dtfi -