How do I format DateTime object in Joda-Time?

By Wayan in Joda-Time 0 Comment

The example show you how to format the string representation of a date. In Joda we can use the DateTime‘s class toString() method. The method accept the pattern of the date format and the locale information.

package org.kodejava.example.joda;

import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;

import java.util.Locale;

public class FormattingDemo {
    // Define the date format pattern.
    private static final String pattern = "E MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Creates a new instance of DateTime object.
        DateTime dt = DateTime.now();

        // Print out the date as a formatted string using the defined
        // Locale information.
        System.out.println("Pattern  = " + pattern);
        System.out.println("Default  = " + dt.toString(pattern));
        System.out.println("Germany  = " + dt.toString(pattern, Locale.GERMANY));
        System.out.println("French   = " + dt.toString(pattern, Locale.FRENCH));
        System.out.println("Japanese = " + dt.toString(pattern, Locale.JAPANESE));

        // Using predefined format from DateTimeFormat class.
        System.out.println("fullDate   = " + dt.toString(DateTimeFormat.fullDate()));
        System.out.println("longDate   = " + dt.toString(DateTimeFormat.longDate()));
        System.out.println("mediumDate = " + dt.toString(DateTimeFormat.mediumDate()));
        System.out.println("shortDate  = " + dt.toString(DateTimeFormat.shortDate()));
        System.out.println("dd/MM/yyyy = " + dt.toString(DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd/MM/yyyy")));
    }
}

Here an the example result of our program:

Pattern  = E MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS
Default  = Mon 07/22/2019 13:50:28.502
Germany  = Mo 07/22/2019 13:50:28.502
French   = lun. 07/22/2019 13:50:28.502
Japanese = 月 07/22/2019 13:50:28.502
fullDate   = Monday, July 22, 2019
longDate   = July 22, 2019
mediumDate = Jul 22, 2019
shortDate  = 7/22/19
dd/MM/yyyy = 22/07/2019

Maven Dependencies

<!-- https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=joda-time/joda-time/2.10.3/joda-time-2.10.3.jar -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
    <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
    <version>2.10.3</version>
</dependency>

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