I'm trying to convert a utc date time in local date time, but I have some problem the the decimal fraction. I call a web service the return a series of data. One of these data is the utc date time in this format I must the use this library org.threeten.bp, I can't use a different library.
2020-06-22T18:28:57.957535800Z
To converte utcFormat to Date,I have found this piece of code that it works fine
DateFormat utcFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'");
utcFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
Date date = utcFormat.parse("2012-08-15T22:56:02.038Z");
DateFormat pstFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS");
pstFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("ECT"));
System.out.println(pstFormat.format(date));
but it doesen't work well from my code, because return this date
2020-07-03T22:27:52.800
How you can see it's different. I did some test and if I leave only 3 decimal after dot, that part of code it will work fine. Have a look the example:
2020-06-22T18:28:57.800Z
return the right date time from ECT zone
2020-06-22T20:28:57.800
I am looking for a way to receive the utc dateTime with only three decimals or to change the utc dateTime by removing the excess decimals. With this last case I am not if it can be a good idea.
Here's an approach similar to yours but using classes from org.threeten.bp
only instead of mixing it with java.util
:
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
String datetimeUtc = "2020-06-22T18:28:57.957535800Z";
// parse it to a ZonedDateTime, this is default formatting ==> no formatter needed
ZonedDateTime utcTime = ZonedDateTime.parse(datetimeUtc);
// print the result
System.out.println(utcTime);
// convert it to another zone
ZonedDateTime estTime = utcTime.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("Europe/Paris"));
// print that, too
System.out.println(estTime);
// define a non-default output format
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS");
// and print the estTime using that format
System.out.println(estTime.format(dtf));
}
This outputs the following:
2020-06-22T18:28:57.957535800Z
2020-06-22T20:28:57.957535800+02:00[Europe/Paris]
2020-06-22T20:28:57.957