I will work with third party API. They accept a date pattern like:
2012-02-15T17:34:37.937-0600
I know the pattern should be match like
yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.s
But I am not sure how to represent the last "-0600" timezone? I think the standard timezone is "-06:00", anyone knows how to get rid of the ":" in the date pattern?
Thanks.
maybe you want "Z" ?
see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html:
- 'z' gives you "Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00"
- 'Z' gives you "-0800"
This code:
final SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SZ");
produces:
2012-05-11T12:21:57.598+1000