Class MailDateFormat
- All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable
,Cloneable
This class does not take pattern strings. It always formats the date based on the specification below.
3.3. Date and Time Specification
Date and time occur in several header fields. This section specifies the syntax for a full date and time specification. Though folding white space is permitted throughout the date-time specification, it is RECOMMENDED that a single space be used in each place that FWS appears (whether it is required or optional); some older implementations may not interpret other occurrences of folding white space correctly.
date-time = [ day-of-week "," ] date FWS time [CFWS] day-of-week = ([FWS] day-name) / obs-day-of-week day-name = "Mon" / "Tue" / "Wed" / "Thu" / "Fri" / "Sat" / "Sun" date = day month year year = 4*DIGIT / obs-year month = (FWS month-name FWS) / obs-month month-name = "Jan" / "Feb" / "Mar" / "Apr" / "May" / "Jun" / "Jul" / "Aug" / "Sep" / "Oct" / "Nov" / "Dec" day = ([FWS] 1*2DIGIT) / obs-day time = time-of-day FWS zone time-of-day = hour ":" minute [ ":" second ] hour = 2DIGIT / obs-hour minute = 2DIGIT / obs-minute second = 2DIGIT / obs-second zone = (( "+" / "-" ) 4DIGIT) / obs-zoneThe day is the numeric day of the month. The year is any numeric year 1900 or later.
The time-of-day specifies the number of hours, minutes, and optionally seconds since midnight of the date indicated.
The date and time-of-day SHOULD express local time.
The zone specifies the offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, formerly referred to as "Greenwich Mean Time") that the date and time-of-day represent. The "+" or "-" indicates whether the time-of-day is ahead of (i.e., east of) or behind (i.e., west of) Universal Time. The first two digits indicate the number of hours difference from Universal Time, and the last two digits indicate the number of minutes difference from Universal Time. (Hence, +hhmm means +(hh * 60 + mm) minutes, and -hhmm means -(hh * 60 + mm) minutes). The form "+0000" SHOULD be used to indicate a time zone at Universal Time. Though "-0000" also indicates Universal Time, it is used to indicate that the time was generated on a system that may be in a local time zone other than Universal Time and therefore indicates that the date-time contains no information about the local time zone.
A date-time specification MUST be semantically valid. That is, the day-of-the-week (if included) MUST be the day implied by the date, the numeric day-of-month MUST be between 1 and the number of days allowed for the specified month (in the specified year), the time-of-day MUST be in the range 00:00:00 through 23:59:60 (the number of seconds allowing for a leap second; see [STD12]), and the zone MUST be within the range -9959 through +9959.
- Since:
- JavaMail 1.2
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Nested Class Summary
Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.text.DateFormat
DateFormat.Field
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Field Summary
Fields inherited from class java.text.DateFormat
AM_PM_FIELD, calendar, DATE_FIELD, DAY_OF_WEEK_FIELD, DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH_FIELD, DAY_OF_YEAR_FIELD, DEFAULT, ERA_FIELD, FULL, HOUR_OF_DAY0_FIELD, HOUR_OF_DAY1_FIELD, HOUR0_FIELD, HOUR1_FIELD, LONG, MEDIUM, MILLISECOND_FIELD, MINUTE_FIELD, MONTH_FIELD, numberFormat, SECOND_FIELD, SHORT, TIMEZONE_FIELD, WEEK_OF_MONTH_FIELD, WEEK_OF_YEAR_FIELD, YEAR_FIELD
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Constructor Summary
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Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionformat
(Date date, StringBuffer dateStrBuf, FieldPosition fieldPosition) Formats the given date in the format specified by RFC 2822 in the current TimeZone.parse
(String text, ParsePosition pos) Parses the given date in the format specified by RFC 2822 in the current TimeZone.void
setCalendar
(Calendar newCalendar) Don't allow setting the calendarvoid
setNumberFormat
(NumberFormat newNumberFormat) Don't allow setting the NumberFormatMethods inherited from class java.text.SimpleDateFormat
applyLocalizedPattern, applyPattern, clone, equals, formatToCharacterIterator, get2DigitYearStart, getDateFormatSymbols, hashCode, set2DigitYearStart, setDateFormatSymbols, toLocalizedPattern, toPattern
Methods inherited from class java.text.DateFormat
format, format, getAvailableLocales, getCalendar, getDateInstance, getDateInstance, getDateInstance, getDateTimeInstance, getDateTimeInstance, getDateTimeInstance, getInstance, getNumberFormat, getTimeInstance, getTimeInstance, getTimeInstance, getTimeZone, isLenient, parse, parseObject, setLenient, setTimeZone
Methods inherited from class java.text.Format
format, parseObject
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Constructor Details
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MailDateFormat
public MailDateFormat()
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Method Details
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format
Formats the given date in the format specified by RFC 2822 in the current TimeZone.- Overrides:
format
in classSimpleDateFormat
- Parameters:
date
- the Date objectdateStrBuf
- the formatted stringfieldPosition
- the current field position- Returns:
- StringBuffer the formatted String
- Since:
- JavaMail 1.2
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parse
Parses the given date in the format specified by RFC 2822 in the current TimeZone.- Overrides:
parse
in classSimpleDateFormat
- Parameters:
text
- the formatted date to be parsedpos
- the current parse position- Returns:
- Date the parsed date in a Date object
- Since:
- JavaMail 1.2
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setCalendar
Don't allow setting the calendar- Overrides:
setCalendar
in classDateFormat
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setNumberFormat
Don't allow setting the NumberFormat- Overrides:
setNumberFormat
in classDateFormat
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