What are the date formats available in SimpleDateFormat class?

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Date and time formats are well described below

SimpleDateFormat (Java Platform SE 7) – Date and Time Patterns

There could be n Number of formats you can possibly make. ex – dd/MM/yyyy or YYYY-'W'ww-u or you can mix and match the letters to achieve your required pattern. Pattern letters are as follow.

  • G – Era designator (AD)
  • y – Year (1996; 96)
  • Y – Week Year (2009; 09)
  • M – Month in year (July; Jul; 07)
  • w – Week in year (27)
  • W – Week in month (2)
  • D – Day in year (189)
  • d – Day in month (10)
  • F – Day of week in month (2)
  • E – Day name in week (Tuesday; Tue)
  • u – Day number of week (1 = Monday, …, 7 = Sunday)
  • a – AM/PM marker
  • H – Hour in day (0-23)
  • k – Hour in day (1-24)
  • K – Hour in am/pm (0-11)
  • h – Hour in am/pm (1-12)
  • m – Minute in hour (30)
  • s – Second in minute (55)
  • S – Millisecond (978)
  • z – General time zone (Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00)
  • Z – RFC 822 time zone (-0800)
  • X – ISO 8601 time zone (-08; -0800; -08:00)

To parse:

2000-01-23T04:56:07.000+0000

Use:
new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");

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