AEM time Formats

Java Supported time formats in AEM.

I have been working in AEM for some time now and I have encountered quite a few time formats that can be used to parse date when writing backend code in Java. We generally use SimpleDateFormat to do this.

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Format                                                             Example
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yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SS                 2015-07-29T21:32:58.89
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX         2016-02-18T07:35:13.014-05:00
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH.mm.ss.SSSX              2016-02-22T00.39.30.376-05.00
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This can be used in the following way

package samples.codermag.net;

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class TimeTesterClass {

public static void main(String[] args) {

  try {
   SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX");
   Date date = format.parse("2016-02-18T07:35:13.014-05:00");
   System.out.println(date.toString());
  } catch (ParseException e) {}
 }
}