Joda-Time Formatter with a dateStyle and a timeStyle

Question

With java.text.DateFormat, it\'s possible to build a date formatter with a date and a time style :

DateFormat df = getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateForm         


        

Answer 1

Standard Formatting Built Into JodaTime

There's a bunch of standard Date and Time formats built right into JodaTime.

Here's an example of one that I use:

DateTime dateTime = DateTime.now(DateTimeZone.UTC);

String formattedDateTime = dateTime.toString(DateTimeFormat.fullDateTime());

Notice the DateTimeFormat.fullDateTime().

Some other options for this include:

• fullTime()
• fullDate()
• shortDateTime()
• forStyle("MS") Indicates a Medium Date and a Short Time.
• forStyle("S-") Indicates a Short Date and No Time.
• ... etc ...

The full listing can be found at:

http://www.joda.org/joda-time/apidocs/org/joda/time/format/DateTimeFormat.html#forStyle(java.lang.String)

Cheers,

JP

Answer 2

Use DateTimeFormat.forPattern() with a pattern that does what you want. For instance, DateTimeFormat.forPattern("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");