public class DateUtil {
/**
* All Dates are normalized to UTC, it is up the client code to convert to the appropriate TimeZone.
*/
public static final TimeZone UTC;
/**
* @see
Combined Date and Time Representations
*/
public static final String ISO_8601_24H_FULL_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX";
/**
* 0001-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
*/
public static final Date BEGINNING_OF_TIME;
/**
* 292278994-08-17T07:12:55.807Z
*/
public static final Date END_OF_TIME;
static
{
UTC = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
TimeZone.setDefault(UTC);
final Calendar c = new GregorianCalendar(UTC);
c.set(1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0);
c.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
BEGINNING_OF_TIME = c.getTime();
c.setTime(new Date(Long.MAX_VALUE));
END_OF_TIME = c.getTime();
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(ISO_8601_24H_FULL_FORMAT);
sdf.setTimeZone(UTC);
System.out.println("sdf.format(BEGINNING_OF_TIME) = " + sdf.format(BEGINNING_OF_TIME));
System.out.println("sdf.format(END_OF_TIME) = " + sdf.format(END_OF_TIME));
System.out.println("sdf.format(new Date()) = " + sdf.format(new Date()));
System.out.println("sdf.parse(\"2015-04-28T14:23:38.521Z\") = " + sdf.parse("2015-04-28T14:23:38.521Z"));
System.out.println("sdf.parse(\"0001-01-01T00:00:00.000Z\") = " + sdf.parse("0001-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"));
System.out.println("sdf.parse(\"292278994-08-17T07:12:55.807Z\") = " + sdf.parse("292278994-08-17T07:12:55.807Z"));
}
}