Java LocalDate parser does not take hours, minutes, seconds into account

Question

I want to parse DateTime from a string. Here is my code:

String dateStr = "2016-08-18T14:44:56.225Z"
final String Pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'";
final DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern(Pattern);
LocalDate dt = dtf.parseLocalDate(dateStr);

Then I only receive Year, Month and Day (2016-08-18) from the code above. I cannot get Hours, Minutes and Seconds.

Did anyone get this problem before? How did you solve that? I use Java 7.

Well, that's what a date is. Use LocalDateTime to get time, too. — mszymborski, Aug 28 '16 at 15:31
Looks like I have just asked a silly question :). Anyway, thanks a lot for your help @mszymborski. — trung truong, Aug 28 '16 at 15:52

mszymborski · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-28T15:45:41.193

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Use LocalDateTime to get time, too:

String dateStr = "2016-08-18T14:44:56.225Z"
final String Pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'";
final DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern(Pattern);
LocalDateTime dt = dtf.parseLocalDateTime(dateStr);

You are also ignoring the time zone (UTC/Zulu in this case - the Z at the end) - make sure if you really want to do this.

edited Aug 28 '16 at 15:45

answered Aug 28 '16 at 15:33

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