org.apache.xmpbox

Class DateConverter

java.lang.Object

org.apache.xmpbox.DateConverter

public final class DateConverter
extends Object

This class is used to convert dates to strings and back using the PDF date standards. Date are described in PDFReference1.4 section 3.8.2

This is (and will not be) a Java date parsing library and will likely still have limited support for various strings as it’s main use case it to parse from PDF date strings.

Author:

Ben Litchfield, Christopher Oezbek

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static Calendar	toCalendar(String date) This will convert a string to a calendar.
static String	toISO8601(Calendar cal) Convert the date to iso 8601 string format.
static String	toISO8601(Calendar cal, boolean printMillis) Convert the date to iso 8601 string format.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

toCalendar

public static Calendar toCalendar(String date)
                           throws IOException

This will convert a string to a calendar.

Parameters:

date - The string representation of the calendar.

Returns:

The calendar that this string represents.

Throws:

IOException - If the date string is not in the correct format.

toISO8601

public static String toISO8601(Calendar cal)

Convert the date to iso 8601 string format.

Parameters:

cal - The date to convert.

Returns:

The date represented as an ISO 8601 string.

toISO8601

public static String toISO8601(Calendar cal,
                               boolean printMillis)

Convert the date to iso 8601 string format.

Parameters:

cal - The date to convert.

printMillis - Print Milliseconds.

Returns:

The date represented as an ISO 8601 string.