I have a timestamp with an offset (-6
) in the following format:
2019-11-30T00:01:00.000-06:00
and I want to convert it to an UTC timestamp, like:
2019-11-30T06:01:00.000Z
I tried it the following way:
String text = "2019-11-30T00:01:00.000-06:00";
LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(text, DateTimeFormatter.BASIC_ISO_DATE);
System.out.println(date.toInstant());
but it is not compiling:
The method
toInstant()
is undefined for the typeLocalDate
How am I supposed to do this correctly?
String text = "2019-11-30T00:01:00.000-06:00";
OffsetDateTime offsetDateTime = OffsetDateTime.parse(text);
Instant instant = offsetDateTime.toInstant();
System.out.println(instant); // 2019-11-30T06:01:00Z
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'")
.withZone(ZoneOffset.UTC);
System.out.println(formatter.format(instant)); // 2019-11-30T06:01:00.000Z
Your date is not just a date, it also has time. So LocalDate
would not work. If at all, then LocalDateTime
.
But, it is also not a local date/time, it has offset information. You need to use OffsetDateTime
instead, and then go to Instant
from there.
To actually get the desired output for your Instant
, you also have to create a proper DateTimeFormatter
, since the default representation does not include the millis.