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Created November 18, 2013 13:39
Convert Date String to/from ISO 8601 respecting UTC in Java
public static String toISO8601UTC(Date date) {
TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm'Z'");
df.setTimeZone(tz);
return df.format(date);
}
public static Date fromISO8601UTC(String dateStr) {
TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm'Z'");