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/*
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* Copyright (C) 1996-2006, International Business Machines Corporation and *
* others. All Rights Reserved. *
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*/
package com.ibm.icu.text;
import java.text.FieldPosition;
import java.text.ParsePosition;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;
import com.ibm.icu.util.Calendar;
import com.ibm.icu.util.ULocale;
/**
* <code>SimpleDateFormat</code> is a concrete class for formatting and
* parsing dates in a locale-sensitive manner. It allows for formatting
* (date -> text), parsing (text -> date), and normalization.
*
* <p>
* <code>SimpleDateFormat</code> allows you to start by choosing
* any user-defined patterns for date-time formatting. However, you
* are encouraged to create a date-time formatter with either
* <code>getTimeInstance</code>, <code>getDateInstance</code>, or
* <code>getDateTimeInstance</code> in <code>DateFormat</code>. Each
* of these class methods can return a date/time formatter initialized
* with a default format pattern. You may modify the format pattern
* using the <code>applyPattern</code> methods as desired.
* For more information on using these methods, see
* {@link DateFormat}.
*
* <p>
* <strong>Time Format Syntax:</strong>
* <p>
* To specify the time format use a <em>time pattern</em> string.
* In this pattern, all ASCII letters are reserved as pattern letters,
* which are defined as the following:
* <blockquote>
* <pre>
* Symbol Meaning Presentation Example
* ------ ------- ------------ -------
* G era designator (Text) AD
* y&#x2020; year (Number) 1996
* Y* year (week of year) (Number) 1997
* u* extended year (Number) 4601
* M month in year (Text & Number) July & 07
* d day in month (Number) 10
* h hour in am/pm (1~12) (Number) 12
* H hour in day (0~23) (Number) 0
* m minute in hour (Number) 30
* s second in minute (Number) 55
* S fractional second (Number) 978
* E day of week (Text) Tuesday
* e* day of week (local 1~7) (Number) 2
* D day in year (Number) 189
* F day of week in month (Number) 2 (2nd Wed in July)
* w week in year (Number) 27
* W week in month (Number) 2
* a am/pm marker (Text) PM
* k hour in day (1~24) (Number) 24
* K hour in am/pm (0~11) (Number) 0
* z time zone (Text) Pacific Standard Time
* Z time zone (RFC 822) (Number) -0800
* v time zone (generic) (Text) Pacific Time
* g* Julian day (Number) 2451334
* A* milliseconds in day (Number) 69540000
* ' escape for text (Delimiter) 'Date='
* '' single quote (Literal) 'o''clock'
* </pre>
* </blockquote>
* <tt><b>*</b></tt> These items are not supported by Java's SimpleDateFormat.<br>
* <tt><b>&#x2020;</b></tt> ICU interprets a single 'y' differently than Java.</p>
* <p>
* The count of pattern letters determine the format.
* <p>
* <strong>(Text)</strong>: 4 or more pattern letters--use full form,
* &lt; 4--use short or abbreviated form if one exists.
* <p>
* <strong>(Number)</strong>: the minimum number of digits. Shorter
* numbers are zero-padded to this amount. Year is handled specially;
* that is, if the count of 'y' is 2, the Year will be truncated to 2 digits.
* (e.g., if "yyyy" produces "1997", "yy" produces "97".)
* Unlike other fields, fractional seconds are padded on the right with zero.
* <p>
* <strong>(Text & Number)</strong>: 3 or over, use text, otherwise use number.
* <p>
* Any characters in the pattern that are not in the ranges of ['a'..'z']
* and ['A'..'Z'] will be treated as quoted text. For instance, characters
* like ':', '.', ' ', '#' and '@' will appear in the resulting time text
* even they are not embraced within single quotes.
* <p>
* A pattern containing any invalid pattern letter will result in a thrown
* exception during formatting or parsing.
*
* <p>
* <strong>Examples Using the US Locale:</strong>
* <blockquote>
* <pre>
* Format Pattern Result
* -------------- -------
* "yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss vvvv" ->> 1996.07.10 AD at 15:08:56 Pacific Time
* "EEE, MMM d, ''yy" ->> Wed, July 10, '96
* "h:mm a" ->> 12:08 PM
* "hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz" ->> 12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time
* "K:mm a, vvv" ->> 0:00 PM, PT
* "yyyyy.MMMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa" ->> 01996.July.10 AD 12:08 PM
* </pre>
* </blockquote>
* <strong>Code Sample:</strong>
* <blockquote>
* <pre>
* SimpleTimeZone pdt = new SimpleTimeZone(-8 * 60 * 60 * 1000, "PST");
* pdt.setStartRule(Calendar.APRIL, 1, Calendar.SUNDAY, 2*60*60*1000);
* pdt.setEndRule(Calendar.OCTOBER, -1, Calendar.SUNDAY, 2*60*60*1000);
* <br>
* // Format the current time.
* SimpleDateFormat formatter
* = new SimpleDateFormat ("yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' hh:mm:ss a zzz");
* Date currentTime_1 = new Date();
* String dateString = formatter.format(currentTime_1);
* <br>
* // Parse the previous string back into a Date.
* ParsePosition pos = new ParsePosition(0);
* Date currentTime_2 = formatter.parse(dateString, pos);
* </pre>
* </blockquote>
* In the example, the time value <code>currentTime_2</code> obtained from
* parsing will be equal to <code>currentTime_1</code>. However, they may not be
* equal if the am/pm marker 'a' is left out from the format pattern while
* the "hour in am/pm" pattern symbol is used. This information loss can
* happen when formatting the time in PM.
*
* <p>
* When parsing a date string using the abbreviated year pattern ("yy"),
* SimpleDateFormat must interpret the abbreviated year
* relative to some century. It does this by adjusting dates to be
* within 80 years before and 20 years after the time the SimpleDateFormat
* instance is created. For example, using a pattern of "MM/dd/yy" and a
* SimpleDateFormat instance created on Jan 1, 1997, the string
* "01/11/12" would be interpreted as Jan 11, 2012 while the string "05/04/64"
* would be interpreted as May 4, 1964.
* During parsing, only strings consisting of exactly two digits, as defined by
* {@link java.lang.Character#isDigit(char)}, will be parsed into the default
* century.
* Any other numeric string, such as a one digit string, a three or more digit
* string, or a two digit string that isn't all digits (for example, "-1"), is
* interpreted literally. So "01/02/3" or "01/02/003" are parsed, using the
* same pattern, as Jan 2, 3 AD. Likewise, "01/02/-3" is parsed as Jan 2, 4 BC.
*
* <p>
* If the year pattern does not have exactly two 'y' characters, the year is
* interpreted literally, regardless of the number of digits. So using the
* pattern "MM/dd/yyyy", "01/11/12" parses to Jan 11, 12 A.D.
*
* <p>
* When numeric fields abut one another directly, with no intervening delimiter
* characters, they constitute a run of abutting numeric fields. Such runs are
* parsed specially. For example, the format "HHmmss" parses the input text
* "123456" to 12:34:56, parses the input text "12345" to 1:23:45, and fails to
* parse "1234". In other words, the leftmost field of the run is flexible,
* while the others keep a fixed width. If the parse fails anywhere in the run,
* then the leftmost field is shortened by one character, and the entire run is
* parsed again. This is repeated until either the parse succeeds or the
* leftmost field is one character in length. If the parse still fails at that
* point, the parse of the run fails.
*
* <p>
* For time zones that have no names, use strings GMT+hours:minutes or
* GMT-hours:minutes.
*
* <p>
* The calendar defines what is the first day of the week, the first week
* of the year, whether hours are zero based or not (0 vs 12 or 24), and the
* time zone. There is one common decimal format to handle all the numbers;
* the digit count is handled programmatically according to the pattern.
*
* <h4>Synchronization</h4>
*
* Date formats are not synchronized. It is recommended to create separate
* format instances for each thread. If multiple threads access a format
* concurrently, it must be synchronized externally.
*
* @see com.ibm.icu.util.Calendar
* @see com.ibm.icu.util.GregorianCalendar
* @see com.ibm.icu.util.TimeZone
* @see DateFormat
* @see DateFormatSymbols
* @see DecimalFormat
* @author Mark Davis, Chen-Lieh Huang, Alan Liu
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public class SimpleDateFormat extends DateFormat {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1;
/**
* Construct a SimpleDateFormat using the default pattern for the default
* locale. <b>Note:</b> Not all locales support SimpleDateFormat; for full
* generality, use the factory methods in the DateFormat class.
*
* @see DateFormat
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public SimpleDateFormat() {
super(new java.text.SimpleDateFormat());
}
/**
* Construct a SimpleDateFormat using the given pattern in the default
* locale. <b>Note:</b> Not all locales support SimpleDateFormat; for full
* generality, use the factory methods in the DateFormat class.
* @param pattern the pattern to use
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public SimpleDateFormat(String pattern) {
super(new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(pattern));
}
/**
* Construct a SimpleDateFormat using the given pattern and locale.
* <b>Note:</b> Not all locales support SimpleDateFormat; for full
* generality, use the factory methods in the DateFormat class.
* @param pattern the pattern to use
* @param loc the locale to use for localization
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public SimpleDateFormat(String pattern, Locale loc) {
super(new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(pattern, loc));
}
/**
* Construct a SimpleDateFormat using the given pattern and locale.
* <b>Note:</b> Not all locales support SimpleDateFormat; for full
* generality, use the factory methods in the DateFormat class.
* @param pattern the pattern to use
* @param loc the ulocale to use for localization
* @draft ICU 3.2
*/
public SimpleDateFormat(String pattern, ULocale loc) {
this(pattern, loc.toLocale());
}
/**
* Construct a SimpleDateFormat using the given pattern and
* locale-specific symbol data.
* Warning: uses default locale for digits!
* @param pattern the pattern to use
* @param formatData the symbols to use for localization
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public SimpleDateFormat(String pattern, DateFormatSymbols formatData) {
super(new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(pattern, formatData.dfs));
}
/**
* Sets the 100-year period 2-digit years will be interpreted as being in
* to begin on the date the user specifies.
* @param startDate During parsing, two digit years will be placed in the range
* <code>startDate</code> to <code>startDate + 100 years</code>.
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public void set2DigitYearStart(Date startDate) {
((java.text.SimpleDateFormat)dateFormat).set2DigitYearStart(startDate);
}
/**
* Returns the beginning date of the 100-year period 2-digit years are interpreted
* as being within.
* @return the start of the 100-year period into which two digit years are
* parsed
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public Date get2DigitYearStart() {
return ((java.text.SimpleDateFormat)dateFormat).get2DigitYearStart();
}
/**
* Overrides DateFormat.
* <p>Formats a date or time, which is the standard millis
* since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.
* <p>Example: using the US locale:
* "yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss zzz" ->> 1996.07.10 AD at 15:08:56 PDT
* @param cal the calendar whose date-time value is to be formatted into a date-time string
* @param toAppendTo where the new date-time text is to be appended
* @param pos the formatting position. On input: an alignment field,
* if desired. On output: the offsets of the alignment field.
* @return the formatted date-time string.
* @see DateFormat
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public StringBuffer format(Calendar cal, StringBuffer toAppendTo, FieldPosition pos) {
StringBuffer result;
synchronized(dateFormat) {
java.util.Calendar oldCal = dateFormat.getCalendar();
dateFormat.setCalendar(cal.calendar);
result = dateFormat.format(cal.getTime(), toAppendTo, pos);
dateFormat.setCalendar(oldCal);
}
return result;
}
/**
* Overrides DateFormat
* @see DateFormat
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public void parse(String text, Calendar cal, ParsePosition parsePos) {
// TODO: cannot set the parsed timezone, document?
cal.setTime(dateFormat.parse(text, parsePos));
}
/**
* Return a pattern string describing this date format.
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public String toPattern() {
return ((java.text.SimpleDateFormat)dateFormat).toPattern();
}
/**
* Return a localized pattern string describing this date format.
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public String toLocalizedPattern() {
return ((java.text.SimpleDateFormat)dateFormat).toLocalizedPattern();
}
/**
* Apply the given unlocalized pattern string to this date format.
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public void applyPattern(String pattern) {
((java.text.SimpleDateFormat)dateFormat).applyPattern(pattern);
}
/**
* Apply the given localized pattern string to this date format.
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public void applyLocalizedPattern(String pattern) {
((java.text.SimpleDateFormat)dateFormat).applyLocalizedPattern(pattern);
}
/**
* Gets the date/time formatting data.
* @return a copy of the date-time formatting data associated
* with this date-time formatter.
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public DateFormatSymbols getDateFormatSymbols() {
return new DateFormatSymbols(((java.text.SimpleDateFormat)dateFormat).getDateFormatSymbols());
}
/**
* Allows you to set the date/time formatting data.
* @param newFormatSymbols the new symbols
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public void setDateFormatSymbols(DateFormatSymbols newFormatSymbols) {
((java.text.SimpleDateFormat)dateFormat).setDateFormatSymbols(newFormatSymbols.dfs);
}
/**
* Overrides Cloneable
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public Object clone() {
return new SimpleDateFormat((java.text.SimpleDateFormat)dateFormat.clone());
}
/**
* For clone to use
* @param sdf
*/
private SimpleDateFormat(java.text.SimpleDateFormat sdf) {
super(sdf);
}
// hashCode, equals, clone use DateFormat implementation.
}