The expression
OffsetDateTime.parse("2016-08-24T18:38:05.507+0000")
results in the following error:
java.time.format.DateTimeParseException: Text '2016-08-24T18:38:05.507+0000' could not be parsed at index 23
On the other hand,
OffsetDateTime.parse("2016-08-24T18:38:05.507+00:00")
works as expected.
DateTimeFormatter's doc page mentions zone offsets without colons as examples. What am I doing wrong? I'd rather not mangle my date string to appease Java.
You are calling the following method.
public static OffsetDateTime parse(CharSequence text) {
return parse(text, DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME);
}
It uses uses DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME as DateTimeFormatter which, as stated in the javadoc, does the following:
The ISO date-time formatter that formats or parses a date-time with an offset, such as '2011-12-03T10:15:30+01:00'.
If you want to parse a date with a different format as in 2016-08-24T18:38:05.507+0000 you should use OffsetDateTime#parse(CharSequence, DateTimeFormatter). The following code should solve your problem:
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
OffsetDateTime.parse("2016-08-24T18:38:05.507+0000", formatter);