Java 8 Offset Date Parsing

Question

I need to parse a String in the following format 2015-01-15-05:00 to LocalDate(or smth else) in UTC. The problem is that the following code:

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Answer 1

Seems like I've found a solution. Here it is:

TemporalAccessor temporalAccessor = DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE.parse("2015-01-15-05:00");
ZonedDateTime zonedDateTime = ZonedDateTime.of(LocalDate.from(temporalAccessor), LocalTime.MAX, ZoneId.from(temporalAccessor));
System.out.println(zonedDateTime.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC).toLocalDate());

Answer 2

The simplest answer is to use OffsetDateTime to represent the data, but you need to default the time:

DateTimeFormatter fmt = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
    .append(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE)
    .parseDefaulting(ChronoField.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0)
    .toFormatter();
OffsetDateTime dt = OffsetDateTime.parse("2015-01-15-05:00", fmt);
LocalDate date = dt.withOffsetSameInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC).toLocalDate();

ZonedDateTime is useful if dealing with time-zones, but when you are only dealing with offsets, OffsetDateTime is simpler.

In general, application code should not hold variables of type TemporalAccessor. If you see that, there is generally a better way.