I am rewriting piece of GO code to java and I have doubths about the following snippet.
Go code:
time.Parse("20060102", someString);
Is it analog of ?
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.parse(credElements[0], DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyyMMdd")
A quick look at the Go documentation reveals that:
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Timerepresents an instant in time with nanosecond precision.
Which is similar to Java's Instant type.
Also, from the docs of Parse,
Elements omitted from the layout are assumed to be zero or, when zero is impossible, one, so parsing "3:04pm" returns the time corresponding to Jan 1, year 0, 15:04:00 UTC (note that because the year is 0, this time is before the zero Time).
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In the absence of a time zone indicator, Parse returns a time in UTC.
Knowing this, we can first create a LocalDate from your string that does not contain any zone or time information, then "assume" (as the Go documentation calls it) that it is at the start of day, and at the UTC zone, in order to convert it to an Instant:
var date = LocalDate.parse(someString, DateTimeFormatter.BASIC_ISO_DATE);
var instant = date.atStartOfDay(ZoneOffset.UTC).toInstant();
Since the result of the line of Go you provided includes an offset, a zone and the time of day, you will have to explicitly attach those and use a specific formatter in Java:
public static void main(String[] args) {
// example input
String date = "20060102";
// parse the date first, using a built-in formatter
LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.parse(date, DateTimeFormatter.BASIC_ISO_DATE);
// then add the minimum time of day and the desired zone id
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.of(localDate, LocalTime.MIN, ZoneId.of("UTC"));
// the formatter
DateTimeFormatter dtfOut = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z VV", Locale.ENGLISH);
// the result of the Go statement
String expected = "2006-01-02 00:00:00 +0000 UTC";
// print the result
System.out.println("Expected: " + expected);
System.out.println("Actual: " + zdt.format(dtfOut));
}
Output:
Expected: 2006-01-02 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Actual: 2006-01-02 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
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