org.apache.jempbox.impl
Class DateConverter

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.jempbox.impl.DateConverter

public class DateConverter
extends Object

This class is used to convert dates to strings and back using the PDF date standards. Date are described in PDFReference1.4 section 3.8.2

Version:

$Revision: 1.6 $

Author:

Ben Litchfield, Christopher Oezbek

Method Summary

static Calendar	toCalendar(String date) This will convert a string to a calendar.
static String	toISO8601(Calendar cal) Convert the date to iso 8601 string format.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

toCalendar

public static Calendar toCalendar(String date)
                           throws IOException

This will convert a string to a calendar.

Parameters:

date - The string representation of the calendar.

Returns:

The calendar that this string represents.

Throws:

IOException - If the date string is not in the correct format.

toISO8601

public static String toISO8601(Calendar cal)

Convert the date to iso 8601 string format.

Parameters:

cal - The date to convert.

Returns:

The date represented as an ISO 8601 string.