Property Detail

• static final ThreadLocal<SimpleDateFormat> DATE_TIME_FORMAT

• static final Pattern GMT_MILLIS

• static final Pattern GMT_SECONDS

• static final Pattern LOCAL_DATE

• static final ThreadLocal<SimpleDateFormat> LOCAL_DATE_FORMAT

• static final Pattern TZ_LESS

• static final Pattern TZ_LESS_HH_MM

Method Detail

• static String dateToString(Date date, String format = 'MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss')

  Converts a Date into a string using a specified format.

  Parameters:

  date - a date to covert

  format - a date format, by default "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss"

  Returns:

  a string representation of a Date object or empty string

• static String format(Date date)

  Returns a string representation of a given date in the 'yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ' format. UTC ISO standard

  Parameters:

  date - a date to convert into a string

  Returns:

  a string representation of a given date

• static String format(LocalDate date, String format = null)

• static Date parse(String date)

  Parse date sent by client (mostly JSON). Expected formats: 2000-03-30, 2000-03-30T22:11:22.123Z , 2000-03-30T22:00:00Z or yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss Assumes all timeZones are UTC //see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10286204/the-right-json-date-format

  throws:

  java.text.ParseException if it cannot recognize a date format

  Parameters:

  date - formatted date

  Returns:

  parsed date

• static LocalDate parseLocalDate(String date)

• static LocalDateTime parseLocalDateTime(String date)