How to split French date and time in Java

Question

Trying to split the date and time which comes in the French style like the example below:

23 sept. 2021 à 13:30:57

And the final result should be the example below:

23-09-2021 and 13:30:57

The issue comes because of the << à >> when trying to get the time. I've tried with the different way such as DateTimeFormatter, DateFormat etc...

Could you please help? thanks in advance

Why not just ignore that and parse `23 sept. 2021 13:30:57`? — m0skit0, Jan 27 '22 at 15:23
@m0skit0 thanks for the reply. The values come with that format, how to ignore them? could you please provide some examples? Thanks — Arsench, Jan 27 '22 at 15:27

Basil Bourque · Answer 1 · 2022-01-27T17:28:25.347

Localization

The java.time classes can automatically localize. So let them parse your localized input. No need to specify a formatting pattern.

This approach works because your input uses the format defined by the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) used by default in modern Java.

LocalDateTime.parse( 
    "23 sept. 2021 à 13:30:57" , 
    DateTimeFormatter
    .ofLocalizedDateTime( FormatStyle.MEDIUM )
    .withLocale( Locale.FRANCE )
) 
.toString()

See this code run live at IdeOne.com.

2021-09-23T13:30:57

How to split French date and time in Java

1 Answers1

Localization