How to get formatted date with date-time and timezone with offset in java

Question

I want to get formatted date and time with timezone and offset. recently I used this code for formatting.

public static String getFormattedLicenseDate(long date) {
      DateFormat dateFormat = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.LONG);
      return dateFormat.format(new Date(date));
}

If the input is 1476786856310 the this method returns "10/18/16 4:04:16 PM HST" but I want to modify this method to get "OCT 18, 2016 16:04:04 HST (HST-10:00)"

Is there any pattern to get this output like "OCT 18, 2016 16:04:04 HST (HST-10:00)"

Search Stack Overflow before posting. This has been handled many times already. — Basil Bourque, Dec 02 '16 at 06:29

Jozef Chocholacek · Answer 1 · 2016-11-29T08:56:04.403

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return new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm:ss z (zZ)").format(new Date()));

From SimpleDateFormat JavaDoc:

z: General Time Zone (Pacific Standard Time; PST)
Z: RFC 822 time zone (-0800)

edited Nov 29 '16 at 08:56

answered Nov 29 '16 at 07:53

Jozef Chocholacek

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Please explain your code, code-only answers are not very useful – Yury Fedorov Nov 29 '16 at 08:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 29 '16 at 08:00

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You can use SimpleDateFormat with format "MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm:ss z (zXXX)"

public static String getFormattedLicenseDate(long date) {
    SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm:ss z (zXXX)");
    return format.format(new Date(date));
}

answered Nov 29 '16 at 08:00

Viet

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It is ok for my question but if I want to use 'GMT' in braces then what should I use in place of 'z'. eg. "OCT 18, 2016 16:04:04 HST (GMT-10:00)" – Gaurav Sharma Nov 29 '16 at 08:50
yes, you should try it yourself, you can add any character eliminate SimpleDateFormat letters http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html – Viet Nov 29 '16 at 08:55

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 29 '16 at 08:03

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DateFormat dateFormat =new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm:ss z (zZ)");
return dateFormat.format(new Date(date));

For more information about date formats refer this

answered Nov 29 '16 at 08:03

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These troublesome classes are now legacy, supplanted by the java.time classes. And you ignore the crucial issue of time zone. – Basil Bourque Dec 02 '16 at 06:27

How to get formatted date with date-time and timezone with offset in java

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